Election results don't change what people believe and value.

The current situation in the US has been a long time coming, and it will take a long time to resolve.

You’re nuts if think it hasn’t always been this way.

Hell, a senator beat the shit out of another senator back in the 1850’s. In the senate.

Yes, right before a massive civil war broke out that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. I don't think you're making the point that you think you're making.

That's one example. Politics has always been a nasty business. People who think it's worse now are either ignorant of the past or lack perspective.

You may be right about politics alone. But there's a much greater division in the US right now of worldviews, of which politics is only the most visible interface--probably because politics uniquely forces us to choose collectively one way or another.

It hasn't always been this way. It simply has been.

The best we can look forward to is a decade of civil war if Biden manages to take office.

Unless someone figures out how to neutralize Facebook and Q immediately. Biden's still talking about being able to make deals with McConnell. We're totally fucked.

It will of course be incomprehensibly darker if Trump manages to hold power.

That's correct, the country is fkd either way. If T. wins, he will cement his dictatorship. If he loses, even if removed from power, the country will be close to civil war.