Election 2016

We will get nowhere consoling ourselves by calling Trump supporters stupid. Even if they are, they certainly have no monopoly on that quality. What about our friends at the DNC who did all they could to subvert the candidacy of Bernie Sanders (who, by the way, could have beaten Trump handily) and then, ignoring all the signs that voters were sick of the same old policies, forced Hilary Clinton, devoid of charm, suspiciously supported, and terribly vulnerable to attack, down our throats? What about Clinton herself, who doesn’t know how to keep her emails organized and wanted to win liberal voters all while cozying up to Wall Street? What about the “pundits” who couldn’t track the downward angle of a ball dropped out of a third-story balcony in a dead calm?

Now the hounds of greed, barely fettered up to now, are loosed and in full cry. Stupidity is what they feed and batten on. Let’s not blame rust-belt workers, screwed repeatedly from Reagan on, and call them stupid, when there is more than enough stupidity to go around.