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I don’t see/hear so much wailing and gnashing of teeth as I expected, and rightfully so. Harris made a good showing and was beaten by only 3.47% of the total votes cast. Which says to me that the vote was closer than what the Electoral College votes might indicate. It also proves to me that BOTH parties are out of touch with the pulse of America.I walked through the living room and caught one of the pundits on “The View” saying that Harris’ loss was a matter of “cultural insensitivity” or something like that. Not so, in my opinion. I believe the Democrats have moved so far to the left, that their rhetoric has left mainstream Dems wondering what the hell happened to the party. (13 million Democrats just disappeared in a single election from 2020 to 2024. Biden got ~80MM votes, while Harris got ~67MM.) Policies such as abortion on demand, taxpayer funded sex change operations, and the open border stance have all indicated a sharp left turn towards demise of our system of laws and morals. I also believe that the backlash from this is what contributed to Trump’s victory.The Republicans are no better, with their entrenchment on policies such as no abortion under any circumstances, and the turning away from what Ronald Reagan deemed “compassionate conservatism”. Both parties need to sit down and weed out the radicals and get back to the basics of what this country should be all about. It is spelled out in the Preamble to the Constitution:"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”Nothing more and nothing less. All the rest is BS - pure and simple. The less government the better, because “A government big enough to give you everything you need is big enough to take everything you have.” ~ spoken by Gerald R. Ford to a joint session of Congress.Time for the American people to mandate a return to smaller government and to hell with all this extraneous BS dragging down our country.