In the last couple of weeks, I\u2019ve allowed my enthusiasm to become unbridled.\u00a0 Everything is good, the sun is bright and shiny and I\u2019m whistling a happy tune.\u00a0 All\u2019s right with the world in this best of all possible worlds where Donald Trump is King.\u00a0 And that tells me that it\u2019s time that I should be, in the inimitable words of Fagin \u201creviewing the situation.\u201d\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s walk through it.\u00a0 The Mid-Term Elections are upon us.\u00a0 The whole Blue Wave scare is just that, a scare tactic meant to produce FUD.\u00a0 So, far from retaking the Senate, odds are very good that the Republicans will add at least a couple of seats and very likely a few more.\u00a0 But the House is a very different matter.\u00a0 Redistricting in Pennsylvania and elsewhere and retiring Republican incumbents mean that there are plenty of races that could go to the Democrats.\u00a0 So, while there may not be any groundswell of Democrat sentiment it\u2019s entirely possible that the Democrats could take the House by a slim margin.<\/p>\n
And although he has been quiet for the last couple of weeks, the Mueller investigation may very well be sitting on a bombshell either of a direct or indirect nature to the Russia investigation.\u00a0 He may be waiting to try and do maximum damage to the House races and thereby allow a Democrat House to vote for impeachment against the President.<\/p>\n
Finally, there\u2019s the X factor.\u00a0 Things have been going along swimmingly.\u00a0 The economy is growing at a phenomenal rate and all of the President\u2019s trade and foreign affairs initiatives have been amazingly successful.\u00a0 What if something changes?\u00a0 Basically, the X factor is anything big going south.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say the stock market crashes.<\/p>\n
Now, anyone of these three events is a major problem.\u00a0 Losing the House or fighting a Mueller or dealing with a Wall Street meltdown is a serious situation.\u00a0 But let\u2019s assume the worst.\u00a0 Let\u2019s assume that a Mueller bombshell causes a Blue Wave that scares the Stock Market into a crash.<\/p>\n
Well, that\u2019s not such a bright and shiny day anymore is it?\u00a0 In fact, that\u2019s almost a replay of 2008.\u00a0 The only difference is that the 2020 election would still be two years away and the President would be Donald Trump instead of George W. Bush.\u00a0 And while I don\u2019t trivialize the severity of such an onslaught I still think that who is performing damage control is more important than the exact details of the crisis.<\/p>\n
And one more thing is different.\u00a0 I am no longer invested in trying to win over the other side.\u00a0 If they already have the numerical advantage in the voting population then the sooner I know the better.\u00a0 Donald Trump has given us a breather with his success.\u00a0 There\u2019s even a chance that he can put together a coalition of people who want the traditional American way of life to survive.\u00a0 But it\u2019s far from a certainty that he can pull it off.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve come to terms with this situation.\u00a0 I no longer depend on us winning.\u00a0 In fact, adapting to a permanent underground status would be almost easier.\u00a0 At least it would solidify my survival tactics and start me moving in the direction needed to protect myself from the consequences of that sadder but less uncertain world.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s the worst case.\u00a0 And you know what.\u00a0 I\u2019m still good.\u00a0 I can deal with that.\u00a0 I\u2019ll adapt and thrive.\u00a0 I\u2019ll help those I care about to adapt and thrive.\u00a0 And that\u2019s the worst case.\u00a0 Anything lesser will be even easier.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be even better.\u00a0 So as far as my sanity check, my enthusiasm is still unbridled.<\/p>\n
Bring it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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