12-30-2016, 12:39 PM
(12-30-2016, 11:52 AM)Bronsin Wrote: The Democrats have no earthly idea of why they lost the election, and I am totally content to watch them twist and spin in agony over all the wrong reasons. Let's hope for all of our sakes that the lame duck doesn't start WWIII before the 20th, or declare Martial Law and start the next civil war.
Maybe if the Russian FSB (the successor of the KGB) and the GRU decided the Presidential and Senate elections, and Democrats were not privy to this information until now, we have a more sinister reason than 'failure to deliver a message' or 'being out of touch with voters'.
The Trump Administration has enough problems due to the personal flaws of the President-Elect and the shaky faith that Americans have in the mandate that he claims. The Trump campaign has soured an inordinate segment of the American public. His moral authority is that he officially won an election and that we are not to criticize the President once he is in office.
Except that the Right organized against President Obama from the first opportunity.
We are going to have the most unpopular President ever at the start of his Administration. Remember: he got little more of a share of the popular vote than Mike Dukakis in 1988 and John McCain in 2008, both considered decisive losers in their elections. I see him unlikely to build bridges to constituencies that he insulted.
If you think the allegation that Barack Obama was born overseas troublesome (because it fit so many mass sentiments), then think of how bad it is that an American President is in office because of machinations in Moscow. We just got the most tainted electoral results in American history, and most likely the worst President since the Civil War.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.