To the editor:
We should have seen it coming, because it was as obvious as the noses on our faces. But for some reason, too many Americans were shocked, stunned, thunderstruck, and dumbfounded by the election of 2016.
She should have won. She was, without question, the most "qualified" candidate for president ever to have run. Her opponent was the singularly most unqualified and temperamentally unfit candidate ever nominated for the job. She had some baggage. But he had way more. Her campaign was organized. His was spectacularly not. She had self-discipline and an nearly encyclopedic knowledge of every issue. He had the self-control of a 3-year-old, and demonstrated an alarming ignorance on virtually every issue.
She had the superior ground game. He didn't even have one. She had the best of the best on her team. He made his golf caddy his media director, and hired a collection of scoundrels. She raised an obscene amount of money and shelled it out with strategic precision. He barely raised any, barely spent any, and spent what he had like a drunken sailor. She had a plan and executed it. He barely knew how he was going to finish a sentence. But she lost.
It's impossible just to blame Hillary Clinton's flaws - or a political party afflicted with enough tunnel vision to ignore the danger of nominating it's most disliked and distrusted candidate in the party's history - or to simply blame the media which was "played like a violin" by her opponent - without laying the majority of blame on millions of supposedly intelligent Americans who voted to put an obviously dangerous, hot-headed, self-confessed sexual predator and blatant scam artist into the Oval Office.
This election begs questions, like: "What's happened to the American people? Have they really become this stupid?"
The answer is, "Yes." Because for quite sometime now, it seems that "the obvious" isn't very obvious to a shockingly large portion of the American electorate anymore.
If this many Americans are no longer even capable of recognizing "the obvious," a electoral disaster of this magnitude might well be the only way to slap them back to their common senses. If our country has any hopes of survival, this election might sadly prove a necessity for those who refuse to learn important lessons from history. Or, perhaps, the bitter reality is, mankind never really learns them.
We should have seen it coming, because it was as obvious as the noses on our faces. But for some reason, too many Americans were shocked, stunned, thunderstruck, and dumbfounded by the election of 2016.
She should have won. She was, without question, the most "qualified" candidate for president ever to have run. Her opponent was the singularly most unqualified and temperamentally unfit candidate ever nominated for the job. She had some baggage. But he had way more. Her campaign was organized. His was spectacularly not. She had self-discipline and an nearly encyclopedic knowledge of every issue. He had the self-control of a 3-year-old, and demonstrated an alarming ignorance on virtually every issue.
She had the superior ground game. He didn't even have one. She had the best of the best on her team. He made his golf caddy his media director, and hired a collection of scoundrels. She raised an obscene amount of money and shelled it out with strategic precision. He barely raised any, barely spent any, and spent what he had like a drunken sailor. She had a plan and executed it. He barely knew how he was going to finish a sentence. But she lost.
It's impossible just to blame Hillary Clinton's flaws - or a political party afflicted with enough tunnel vision to ignore the danger of nominating it's most disliked and distrusted candidate in the party's history - or to simply blame the media which was "played like a violin" by her opponent - without laying the majority of blame on millions of supposedly intelligent Americans who voted to put an obviously dangerous, hot-headed, self-confessed sexual predator and blatant scam artist into the Oval Office.
This election begs questions, like: "What's happened to the American people? Have they really become this stupid?"
The answer is, "Yes." Because for quite sometime now, it seems that "the obvious" isn't very obvious to a shockingly large portion of the American electorate anymore.
If this many Americans are no longer even capable of recognizing "the obvious," a electoral disaster of this magnitude might well be the only way to slap them back to their common senses. If our country has any hopes of survival, this election might sadly prove a necessity for those who refuse to learn important lessons from history. Or, perhaps, the bitter reality is, mankind never really learns them.
