Survey of AFT members on 2016 election.

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111. Actually, that would NOT be such a terribly bad thing.

President Obama has done some MASSIVE good. MASSIVE. Of course, he's not perfect, either. But on balance, I think he'll come out FAR more on the plus side than on the minus side. With the crap he's had to face in the past six-and-a-half years, the obstruction, the hostility, the outright hate, the duplicitousness, the Sore Losermanship, I'm frankly amazed that he's gotten ANYTHING positive accomplished. History will be VERY kind to this President.

I would also guess that if Bernie Sanders makes it all the way to the White House, there very likely will be another round of weeping and wailing to be seen and heard. Because with a Congress like what we've got now (and there's no way Dems can take the House back until maybe 2020, the way it's been gerrymandered), he will not be able to get much of his agenda passed. It will be another fucking struggle with the assholes on the so-called "right." He'll be immediately targeted by mitch mcconnell and friends who figure THIS time, it'll work. THIS time they'll fer sure be able to hold him to a one-term Presidency. And they'll go after every burp and fart of his with everything they've got.

And as with President Obama, I would suspect that we would soon be hearing strains of "goddamn used car salesman" with a President Sanders, too. How he broke all his promises and he's a turncoat or a useless incompetent because he coulda fought harder (or some such thing), or that there was no magic solution put into place as he envisioned it in his campaign speeches and he sold us a bill o' goods (or some such thing). NOBODY will be happy with him, especially his ardent supporters who have such strong faith in him. Then-Candidate Obama didn't bat a thousand once he got the big job, either. And it seems as though, in many ways, he STILL can't get a fuckin' break from some people on our side. If Bernie becomes President, that will be his lot in life, as well. Guaranteed.

It's always good to hope for a miracle. But miracles are rare. EXCEEDINGLY rare. The one we just saw unfold in Charleston only happened because nine innocent, loving, inclusive, and saintly people got fucking massacred In Their Church In The Middle Of Freakin' BIBLE Study by a young white supremacist-trainee. Look what it took for us to evolve even as much as taking the damn hate rag down. Look what it took. Miracle, maybe. But it was paid for by blood and tears in amounts almost unimaginable. Miracles don't come easy and they don't come by the dozen - especially in the size and magnitude that America most desperately needs.