I am deliberately writing this post before looking into the results of today's election. I dropped off my absentee ballot yesterday, so I don't have any direct involvement in "election day." I have been working outside all day and have heard nothing of the news. All elections are times of uncertainty, but this one more than most. It seems likely that the outcome will be contested, probably more-so than the issues in Florida in 2000, so it one sense, it seems preferable that one side wins decisively. But after polling failures in the 2016 race, not predicting the winner with any degree of accuracy, it is even harder than usual to know what to expect.
I would prefer Trump winning, as I see nothing overwhelmingly bad resulting from that, especially if the Democrats control the House, and possibly the Senate. If Biden wins, it is likely that the Democrats will control Congress as well, leading to few restraints on their publicly promised abuses of Federal power, to attempt to control the pandemic, the climate, the economy, and the culture. I for one, do not want to see America "transformed." It is possible that nothing terrible would happen under Biden, but it is also possible that Harris would end up in power, which is not a pretty picture. The Democrats could pack the court, ignore or overturn the 2nd amendment, control people's healthcare, surrender sovereignty to the UN, and a host of other terrible things for American freedom. Trump may be far from perfect, but he has limited government growth in the face of the biggest crisis of a generation, which is more than can be said of George W Bush's department of Homeland Security after 9/11.
At the present, both sides appear to expect their candidate to win, and fully expect the other party to riot in the streets when they lose. I suppose it is possible, and we will only discover the truth of one side of those claims. If Trump is declared the winner, we will never fine out how his supporters would have reacted to his loss. Same goes for Antifa, BLM, and others if Biden wins. I don't really want to find out either way. But it is is sign of the unstableness of our society. I haven't been stocking up on food and ammo like some people I know, but I will be less anxious once the result is settled. Even if the result doesn't go my way, then we can deal with those potentially stressful repercussions as they come.
