Last Tuesday, November 8, 2016, we went out en masse to deposit our vote and with it, ratified the candidate we had selected in the primaries last September.
In the local environment, all we noticed were long lines at the polls and the day ended without incident. As for the candidates, being in the majority of the same party, the incumbents finished reelected to their positions.
At the national level, the story was written minute by minute, with a nail-biting finale. After a campaign that seemed endless where the candidates seemed to choose the most appropriate words not to be silenced by censorship the inevitable happened as in every election, there were a winner and a loser.
And as in every election, it is not the winners who protest but the losers, who claim their victory was obtained by having more popular votes ignoring the mandate that our Founding Fathers introduced in our Constitution, the Electoral Vote.
And based on the Electoral Vote we have a new president to whom we owe respect for the position to which he will be sworn in on January 20, 2017. Everyone, absolutely everyone, no matter the party to which we belong, must work together to help him succeed. If he triumphs, we will be our triumphant, also.
That’s the American way!
