Now I'm not naive enough to believe the U.S. is a bastion of democratic principle; heck, we typically get shit choices for 'elections' and undoubtedly that is by design. But, for now, it is what it is, and recent events and babble prompted some thoughts to roll through my mind. One in particular is my questioning the wisdom, or rather a complete lack of this wisdom, to 'overthrow' the recent election result.

Some of my facebook crowd were chiding me for causing Hillary to lose 10,000,000 votes between Barack 2008 and Hillary 2016. I wish.

In response, they forced me to really, logically, explicitly explain age 62, coming in 2022.

This is from a friend of mine and I'm curious as to what the community thinks:

The Republicans now get their golden opportunity to institute their austerity programs (read “breaking the backs of the middle class to pay for more tax cuts for the wealthy under the guise of fiscal responsibility”).

and liberals put him there.

Thomas Frank has a great article on the Guardian that everyone here will want to read.

A respected voice on a good platform excoriating the liberal establishment and calling out their BS.

Some brief highlights: