11-09-2016, 04:11 PM
(11-09-2016, 03:16 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Let's be crass and blunt, it is the new normal. What many who voted for Trump wanted to do was to figuratively punch out the so called "elites." The wrath that grew from years of shrinking economic attainment, coupled with cultural changes, some of them good, some of them not, pushed many average Americans past some sort of breaking point. Adrenalin kicked in, so to speak, then rational thought went out the window. It is not unexpected. Sanders failed to harness this well enough to rise to the top of the pile. Trump did it better. Here we are.
Who can blame them for felling irate? I can't. Then again, you don't get warm by burning down your house ... and, to me, this has that old arson feel to it.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.