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How to Survive the Roller Coaster of Elections
One thing is for sure… half the voters will feel like winners and the other half will feel like losers
“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” Winston Churchill
In my short life to date, I’ve experienced 17 U.K. parliamentary elections and 2 U.K. referendums.
Since I’ve made the U.S. my home, I’ve experienced 8 presidential elections.
Every one of the 25 elections was a polarizing experience for the people of the country with campaigns based on hatred, criticism, name-calling, fake facts, and interference from foreign agents.
Nothing about the 2020 U.S. election is new even if you feel that it is
What fascinates me is that in the U.K. elections, the winning party never received more than 43% of the popular vote, which in essence means 6 out of every 10 people who voted did not want the incumbent.
