And HRC was the picture of honesty?
YJ, you know I love you man - right?
To have a meaningful dialog about this, step away from the candidates for a minute.
No politician is honest. None. And there never has been one. Never.
We good there?
So it isn't about honesty, per se. Before we go there, we should address what elections are about.
For example, from reading this thread, I am sure that a couple of posters would dig up a couple of ex-presidents to give them a blow job, if they could. But that kind of chauvinism is only part of what elections are about; the net inventory of the national mental insufficiency.
In years when things are going well from a citizens standpoint, I don't mean peace versus war, I mean being able to cope with what is happening around them, people make certain predictable decisions, that seem and are rational.
This time the public was faced with a congress they hated and feared slightly more than Ebola, a president that had as high of popularity and approval ratings as anyone set to leave office, in thirty or forty years. The electorate had a mild discomfort about the direction the country was headed, but it was less negative than eight years prior, and the country decided to pick a candidate that lied every time he spoke.
Why not throw out the congress? Most people could even make the connection that they were a big part of the problem? Instead, they gave them more power. Why?
Because people never really want the truth, and when they (the population as a whole) are really feeling sick) they want it even less.
So what Hillary is, that Donald Trump isn't, is the kind of person that can relate well enough to others that in analysis, she wants what is best for the country.
So, bunches of her detractors/Trump supporters said, she was no better than Trump (you get the disease and illogic in that, right?) Which is fine. However, she gracefully conceded. That narcissistic alexithymic buffoon still goes off claiming that millions of votes were fraudulent, which is the only reason HRC won the popular vote by two-million and counting. Can you really believe that? And that anyone buys his bull shit!
That is the classic character study of someone you don't want to be in charge of anything, and I see this election as the political equivalent by the electorate, of an individual committing suicide, or attempting it.
So, to summarize, HRC couldn't get away with a single lie of the type and breadth that Trump peppered his daily speech. Two final things. Because of the way the election came together Trump could get away with it and Clinton couldn't. A bit of the reason was her, and her husband's background and history, and Trumps lack thereof with the electorate. But part of it was Trump's I don't give a damned attitude, linked up with the electorate's white sub-components fear of being devalued. Many never got over having a President with any African ancestry, however, this probably wasn't the first time, and with that, it was easy to use anti-woman sentiment against HRC, to help repress any enthusiasm the electorate may have had for electing a woman.
Maybe that was the whole of the illness suffered by the American electorate, seeing old prejudices that many, if not most, accepted as truth, topple, getting ready to fall. Disgusting as I find it, I certainly saw enough of it this election cycle.
But at any rate, everyone should take a minute and just stop with the pedantic petty arguments, and puffery, related to mine versus yours. This cycle, with Donald Trump just outright lying, I am afraid he broke the process. There is no room for him to be accountable for his actions.
So I don't really care about defending HRC, as long as you admit that Trump is truly what he is, devoid of any concern for what comes out of his own mouth, or whether his word and his actions align.
And I predict that those right now that think this post is so silly (or whatever expletive you would choose) will be the first to suffer and complain. Because, Donald is the only person scheduled to get what he wants, as of now.
And for all of you Republicans, you are my best hope. I hope your leaders will stand up to Trump with his Russian Alliances, and other breaches of the Constitution. They will be coming fast and furious. Might not have a lot of time to evaluate whether the cost is worth it. Good luck!
