I care deeply about my country, but at the same time I understand that a) a plurality of voters elected Trump, a man they knew to be a pathological liar, and b) my vote doesn’t count any more than that of some hateful moron. This is what these people wanted, and it’s what they got.
Here’s another way to look at it. There are 206 sovereign nations on this planet, of which the United States is only one. Now, of course, some people believe that the U.S. is clearly the best one, and that God blesses us singularly, but, speaking of morons, that is the thinking of the true idiot.
America is obviously going into a swoon. Will it recover? Most of us think so. Certainly we hope so.
But there are no guarantees. As historians have consistently pointed out, once a democracy is lost via a military attack, or, far more commonly, as in this case, via moral decay from within, it very seldom recovers.
