Come Wednesday morning, it's pretty damn certain the sun will rise. Nearly as certain is that one side or the other of the political spectrum will be apoplectic.
Yet the sun will still rise. No apocalypse occurred overnight in the wake of the election.
Life will go on.
But if listening or reading only in the echo chambers of the (inaptly named) major political parties, left or right, liberal or conservative, roughly half of the average american citizens will hear doom and gloom. It is also reasonable to predict an onslaught of associated claims and counterclaims about this or that injustice. Just as during the lead up to the election, exaggeration, embellishment, overstatement, and hyperbole will fill the day. Self-appointed pundits will flood (mainly in the aforementioned echo chambers) broadcasts, the airwaves, and Internet with their (anything but) sage views. Absolutism will dominate. Handwringing will be elevated to an art form. Invective will be shouted. Protests may be mounted.
Sheesh!
Yet the sun will come up and life will go on.
Those most impacted by the results, the average citizenry of the nation, will go about their daily lives, in spite of the election. Some will grouse, some will smile. But they will go about their lives, regardless of their views and feelings. Because that is just the way it will be.
The winners may celebrate and the losers may complain, but neither will simply lay down and do nothing. Momentary anger or joy will by necessity yield to the demands of the new day. Breakfast will be consumed and off to work they will go, happy or not. The activities of daily life will continue pretty much unabated.
Perhaps only in the woefully unrealistic and insular bubbles called college/university campuses will activity momentarily cease. Classes may be cancelled. Marches may be organized. Even as parents pay the bills, academia may raise its strident voice.
Everywhere else, life will go on.
That is an absolute certainty for Wednesday morning.
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