I just realized just now walking my dogs in the forest what the real problem was. It was like the forest was helping me see this clearly for the first time.
The real problem appears to be not who gets elected but rather how the electorate reacts to who gets elected and whether they believe their votes were tallied fairly or not.
I realized I saw at least 5 potential different individual time lines spreading out from Election Day and most were quite frankly horrific.
The problem appears to be not that Putin is supporting Trump which he is but that he is undermining our system of government. Because of this no matter who wins by how much or how little the people aren't going to believe that their votes were tallied right because of Russian Espionage in the system.
So, the real problem turns out that it is potentially 10 to 100 times worse than what happened in 2000 when Gore won the popular vote and the Supreme Court put in Bush instead. The upset of the populace was extreme then but because of Gore's gentlemanly ways we avoided a revolution at that time. We may not be as lucky this time for a variety of reasons.
So, in the end it is less important who gets elected then you might think at this point. The real problem is: "Will Anyone at all accept or believe the results without resorting to violence?"
This is the real problem we now face because of Putin's interference (known interference in the U.S. elections).
And then because of the violent reactions of many millions of people neither candidate might be here to be inaugurated president no matter who gets elected. This appears to be the problem we ACTUALLY might be facing now instead.
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