We're just a bunch of nobodies commenting on one political forum out of dozens. All the self righteous harping and gloating here didn't/won't effect anything.
Ever hear of six degrees of separation? The "butterfly effect"? To assert that none of this could have any effect is not a well thought out position.
It may very well have had an effect, and unless every connection with everything that happened here is explored, we cannot accurately say that it didn't.
What we can say would have had no deleterious effects is refusing to help the enemy spread their propaganda. This can be proven by the logic of cause preceding effect. If there is no "cause", there can be no "effect."
Generally, there was never a better example of the perfect being the enemy of the good. This election just deprived us of a reliable conservative vote - for a supreme court justice, for border control, for welfare reform. It will make all the thing we CLAIM to want here that much harder to achieve.
And the window of opportunity will not stay open forever.
In the larger scope of things, there is this concept in politics called "momentum." Politics is cyclic after a fashion, and this "act" has given the Democrats a boost to help flip the normal rotation of politics to begin earlier than it otherwise might have done.
It will likely cause the next cycle to start earlier and progress deeper than it otherwise would have done.
Marginal potential wins in the off year elections have moved some number of points closer to Democrat wins as a result of what happened.
