On Accepting the Results of This Election

Dear Republicans,

Demanding a recount does not mean that Hillary Clinton is not "accepting the results of this election."  Here's what a recount actually signifies:  that the integrity of American elections must be protected, especially when there are irregularities.  And always when the popular vote does not align with the election outcome.

Your unabashed commitment to lying to the American people has meant you have won many battles. One of these battles may or may not be the recount.  We will see.

Here are ten reasons why you will not win this war.  They all relate to your disdain for your disciples.

1.  You've doubled down on repetition as a truth-simulating strategy.

2.  As a result, you've made people feel informed.

3.  As they feel informed, you exploit their ignorance.

4.  The very ignorance you've help to create.

5.  You have abused the "equal time" broadcast mandates and used your time to spread misinformation to the American people.

6.  You have created a fake media industry to add legitimacy to these lies and foster ignorance.

7.  You exploit your elderly voters by capitalizing on their lack of savvy with new media.

8.   You exploit Christians by pretending that you care about abortions.

9.  But in your desperation to fight against your lack of relevance and integrity, you have made many, many  mistakes.  The biggest mistake has not been your strategy of prestidigitation.  Though the this-is-not-what-it-is strategy will not help you recover.  Later, it will hurt you.

10.  To achieve your desired results, you have made deals with unthinkable devils.  This has been your biggest mistake.  And soon, as you will see, the cannibalizing begins.

Here's an example of how you want your process to work.  When it functions smoothly, it looks like this:  You created the term Obamacare.  Your term distracted from the achievements of the Affordable Care Act.  Your term, Obamacare, enabled people to hate the very policy designed to help them.  You negotiated the single payer option out of the bill so that insurance companies could undermine its effects.  You blamed these failures on Obamacare.  You thought that if your constituents hated black people, and by extension their black president, perhaps they would be too blind (or stupid) to notice that President Obama had been everyone's president; he was interested in helping even those Americans who hated him.  (You hoped that people would forget that some of their bankruptcies were caused by medical bills).  You may have a laugh at your own uncanny evil when you overturn Medicare and blame this too on Obamacare.

What's more likely, however, can already be seen.  The cannibals have come to Washington, and Republicans will finally have something to truly fear. The young klansmen in their shiny new suits have set up camp in D.C.  In their hubris, the members of the billionaire boys club will reveal their true pathologies.  Even Paul Ryan won't make it through their trafficking.