I'm depressed. We went from the blowhard in chief, to the blow-hole in chief. When President Obama was elected I genuinely wished him well. I saw hope for reconciliation. All that evaporated. I got to a point where I could no longer tolerate being "talked down to" by my president.
Then, the 2016 elections. What I've come to call the no-choice-choice. We ended up with the blow-hole in chief. I can say that he tapped into some seething anger among those in the U.S. who have felt increasingly disenfranchised over the last couple of decades. They would rather have what they perceive as "an honest evaluation sans PC nonsense" - even at the expense of it coming from someone who is venal, vulgar, narcissistic, and largely unable to string together three coherent sentences in a row.
I've come to agree with Jay Leno, "Every time I think I'm a democrat they do something stupid. Every time I think I'm republican, they do something mean." A pox on both their houses. In the same way that we've come to a post-modern consensus philosophically in the west, we're rapidly coming to a post-US dominance (for good and ill) in the world. And as history so plainly shows, this great society will be destroyed from within (by both left and right) and become a client-state to some other dominant society that is monolithic in its consensus (even if a forced consensus). It has been ever thus.
Rand
