Every once in a while I get an itch that wants to be scratched.
It's similar to driving by a car crash and craning your neck to see if there is any blood and gore. We all do it, even if it doesn't reflect well on us.
In this case "my itch" is to check out the wrec'd list of TOP to see what sort of horrible, mangled, car crash of a diary landed there.
I'm not proud of this urge.

Today I found a full-on, demolition derby of stupid on the GOS.
I'm talking such intense stupidity that it might cause one to shield of the eyes of innocent children, lest it corrupt their minds, haunt their dreams, and cause them to ask questions for which there are no answers.
For those of you with a sense of shame, please stop reading now. There is no redeeming value in what you might read from here on.

There are studies and surveys as to why the Dems lost in 2016, and why people think the Dems are out of touch.
Well, TOP has a whole different take on it!

Some wonder why two-thirds of the American people think Democrats are out of touch.

The explanation is media coverage.

A good example occurred yesterday. Hillary Clinton made the point that many areas of rural America don’t have high-speed Internet and this could be a cause of slow growth in these areas. She went on to point out that some areas don’t even have cell phone coverage.

As Dave Weigel pointed out in the Washington Post the flood gates of criticism then opened, the gist of which is that she is an out-of-touch elitist. The fact is, her campaign had detailed policies for improving broadband coverage, an issue on which Trump, predictably, is clueless.

Clinton was anything but out-of-touch.

But the media narrative overwhelmed the truth.

Aaaahhh! My eyes! The stupid! It burns!
Amazingly, this is currently at the very top of the rec'd list.

Recall Hillary's take on why she won/lost the election yesterday.
Well, also sharing the rec'd list was this gem.

Hillary Clinton was not a Bad Product, Americans are Spoiled Consumers

...America has become a country that seeks saccharine gratification in place of some bitter truths.

All through the presidential campaign, I heard the phrase, ‘I will hold my nose and swallow,’ when it came to voting for Hillary Clinton. Progressives, Republicans and those “tired of the establishment” are now choking on its own narcissistic consumerism. Like conscientious parents, we are now desperately searching for a dentist to extract the festering cavity in the country’s mouth. I love candy orange slices. They are chewy, gummy and coated in sugar; I would be better off eating a real orange but the peeling, spitting out seeds and the squirting juice is inconvenient. The comparison, of which one is better for you, is unquestioned.
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I am just stupid or are the liberal purist and Republican lemmings finally going to say, you know Hillary may have left a bad taste in my mouth but the world would be in bigger and better hands.

I am left speechless by...uh, this...thing that washed up on the rec list. All rotten and bloated.

For those of you who read to the bottom of this essay - shame on you.