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A lot of ragging about the Democratic Party these days and how they blew the election. Obviously, I wasn't around here for the primary campaigns or the election, but in a nutshell here's my take on this silly shit.
The Democrats ran the best classically trained candidate for the office in my lifetime. If we had been able to rid ourselves of the raggedy holdover from this country's pre-democratic past (the electoral college), that candidate would have won, the executive branch jobs would all be filled, and the country would be rolling along relatively without a care in the world. So...I'm not gonna blame the Democratic party for anything.
The only reason we are where we're at right now is on the people. The country is somewhere between a third and half full of assholes.
The "unfavorable" numbers we see these days don't require a whole lot of analysis. Trump never had the votes of any legitimate progressives or moderates, pretty much all of whom voted for Hillary...a little less than 50% the electorate. Trump got the votes of intellectually lazy-ass "independents" who left their brains in their other pants, and the votes of 1%er's who's only interest was in their federal income tax bill...an additional 15% of the electorate. Trump has managed to lose these self-absorbed assholes in the first 150 days. Finally there's his base of bigot, xenophobic, nativist, nationalistic poor disenfranchised white people (who have had all the advantages in this country since the founding)...the remaining 35% of the country are, of course, sticking with him. Despicables forever.
That's 98%. In thinking about it further...the missing percent or so in there are miffed milennials, (and other massively self-absorbed types with personalities that put them on the other side of the same coin with Donald) mostly infected with Bernie-itis, who decided to spend election day in some fucking Starbucks somewhere sucking down their Triple, Venti, Half Sweet, Non-Fat, Caramel Macchiato's...and who are the most despicable of all. And an extra-special happy independence day too all of you.
"Every country has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre. Never fit better than it does today.
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