I went to sleep yesterday disheartened, convinced Hillary would win. This morning, while I was still sleeping, my sister comes out telling me that Trump has won! I was in so much shock I had to get right up to check the internet. Wow. I think today I know what it's like to suddenly feel hope for the future, to feel like all isn't lost and that society (well, America) isn't doomed.

It still hasn't sunk in completely and I'm still in a kind of euphoria, but I am just so glad! Americans finally had the guts to stand up against political correctness, against those who would like us to all have the same views, who would like us to believe that the majority or the strong or the rich should be ashamed of their "privilege" and give privileges to "minorities" just for being minorities. Against those who seek to portray every minority in the book as a victim (blacks, women, LGBT, etc.) and who shame those who dare say anything that goes against this view point. Those who spread propaganda to divide people (feminism, Black Lives Matter), those who are unable to take responsibility for their actions or those of their peers. Today, America stood up to all of that and said they had had enough.

Now, people are no longer letting the elite who don't know anything about their daily lives and who don't face the issues they face with (just look at these stars' reactions! Better yet, look at the comments https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/celebs-react-to-donald-trumps-presidential-victory-074528103.html ) dictate their choices and are finally thinking for themselves instead of blindly following the masses.

Today, my faith in humanity was restored.

If that means there's a future where Republicans have almost no chance of ever winning again, then the future looks bright

My thoughts exactly.

Don't read too much into it.  Youth voting left has been a very, very long running trend.  Which means that, normally, they grow up to fall back to that 60/40 split either favoring right or left. 

Can always dream XD

I suppose one can call it a dream.  I would not.  If nothing else, the leftist tax proposals are absurd.  Don't necessarily think that the Right has put forth the best proposals either, but the idea of drasitcally raising the corporate tax rate and keeping the international tax rate on top of that is just absurd when you consider we already have the highest corporate tax rate of any developed country and are the only developed modern country who has an international tax system.  And further expanding entitlements is also something I consider utter madness when we can't afford the programs we already have in place.

Politics always change.

Well, I think the republican screwed this time around, now to the new president, there are things he said he will do that he can, so let's see if he will stick to his words
I think the better candidate won in the end so no complains for now

What strikes me most of all is there is a gulf in America between people. Politics and party has increasingly come to define people more than anything else. After decades of radio, television, and internet news sources creating echo chambers there are completely different realities we inhabit.

I'm guilty of this as well and internalized poor logic that seeing peers and polls that Trump could not possibly win. I really am curious to meet one group in particular, those that voted Obama in 08 and 12 and then changed to Trump in 16.

This is a very contradictory post, because it essentially says that calling people is stupid, and then it essentially calls young people stupid for having a differing opinion. Do you have to be unable to think for yourself or analyze things to be able to vote for Clinton? Also calling Clinton manipulative and not calling Trump manipulative too sounds just wrong to me. He's a populist, so he's almost by definition manipulative.