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it all works in unpredictable ways, there's no way to know which is "better" and it's even more indeterminable if you go person by person, although it's patently clear for others, those who would be directly benefited or harmed in one scenario or the other.

but for the most part, in the big scale of things (which is an abstraction that is not of human scale and is therefore insensitive and not empathetic to all the little differences that are big deals and mean everything to many people particularly), it's really more or less the same whoever is president, and that has of course been the point all along around these parts.

the political divisions won't disappear or be ameliorated whoever wins, and Trump can't win forever. i don't think it will get as bad as civil war as the hysteric sensationalists, fearmongers, and instigators say. someone could say that whether it's Dem or Rep who wins will determine which side gets agitated the most into "firing the first shot" in this imagined civil war. but the first shots were already fired in the first civil war. it's the butthurt right and neo-confederacy that's wanting a confrontation and a divide.
the government is on the uncomfortable position of turning a blind eye to this faction to appease them and confronting them head on, which would make it look civil war-ish. if they support them head on, it would be civil war-ish as well.

but the conflict and tensions will not rise to that level [according to me] though unrest may resemble the level 60's era stuff, but a different scenario, of course. US (geopolitical) hegemony relative slight downfall is due mainly to factors that no president can help, largely macro things like demographic, economic geo-graphic/geologic/envoronmental/ecosystem factors at a global scale. you can only do so much with politics (includes policies, diplomacy and war). the current modern (urban westernized) way of life that's fairly homogeneous worldwide dictates the macro trends. US influence in the globalized culture was, is, and will keep on being a hegemonic one, but the trademark stamp fade away as it has been appropriated everywhere, affirmed by each as their own autoctonous form of """"progress"""".