I’m sick of the manufactured outrage this election. The American public was fully aware what kind of people both Presidential candidates were when we nominated them. We have only ourselves to blame.
Let’s be honest and stop with the fist-waving and name-calling. We relinquished that right with an enthusiasm and abandon that should trigger nothing but shame in retrospect.
Donald Trump is, for lack of a more articulate adjective, an asshole. He’s the spoiled rich kid, the bully, the fraternity jock who hopes a comely cheerleader will get drunk enough not to remember who took advantage of her in the morning. The evidence of his disdain for nonwhite elites is apparent to anyone who knows how to use Google, and it always has been.
Those who voted for him in the primaries should have known this. The only explanation is that we’re truly desperate or that we chose to disregard that in favor of bumper-sticker slogans. Continued...