Don't get me wrong, I am in no way suggesting we should let Trump win. It's just likely to get worse before it gets better, no matter what happens.

It's incredibly frustrating because, as great as the Internet is for allowing people to find communities that they never would have otherwise, it's also allowed people hide in their own echo chambers and amplify their crazy to a fever pitch.

I watch people scream about how climate change is a hoax or Obama is trying to destroy Israel or "real unemployment is actually 30%" or whatever and shake my head at their ignorance while they likewise think all liberals are fools who are blindly accepting the "lies" their leaders hand them and their demands for acceptance are naively ignoring the real threat posed by Muslims or gays or whatever.

as great as the Internet is for allowing people to find communities that they never would have otherwise, it's also allowed people hide in their own echo chambers and amplify their crazy to a fever pitch.

The flip side of that is that, yet again, I'm so happy to live in Cincinnati's most liberal neighborhood. (It has actually been kind of a sea of Sanders yard signs. I feel sorry that their candidate didn't win Ohio.)

Because it doesn't look the way it used to (white, male, straight, and Christian).

Just because it's wrong and ludicrous doesn't mean it's not a force to be taken very seriously. In a mass, they won't listen. I think this behemoth can only be taken down a person at a time, with someone willing to grab one of these hate mongers and try to untangle what goes on in his/her head (because it's not just men doing this, a lot of women really like that world they think they used to live in).

I feel like many of Trump's supporters have been spoiling for a fight for years, so violence is inevitable whatever the outcome. I'd rather they riot because he lost or wasn't nominated than have him win and watch them take out their aggressions on the losers.

It'll be a shock to the middle-of-the-roaders, because rioters are supposed to be poor blacks, not outraged white people.l

I'm afraid that after Dubya's re-election my open-mindedness about politics and wilingness to accept the validity of other people's positions curdled into contempt for all the stupid fuckers out there. And Dubya's disastrous presidency (probably the worst in my lifetime) confirmed that suspicion.

I just feel like half my country is composed of idiots and assholes. Which I didn't presume before but now that sounds about right.

Yeah, as awful as things got after 2004 you can't say the electorate didn't deserve them, since Bush legitimately won that one.

Ha, it's not even me holding things up! It is apparently only me noticing that we aren't done with testing, but the next step is actually yet another department's. They just need an engraved invitation to do their thing.

I just feel like half my country is composed of idiots and assholes. Which I didn't presume before but now that sounds about right.

Yeah, I remember thinking that when George H W Bush was elected after 8 years of Reagan. But mainstream media bears some of the blame.

I read some economics theory that says it's not in most people's interests (economically speaking) to be well-informed about politics. I don't remember the details.

And, apparently, he's also willing to go through the process

This seems like a process that's gonna suck, so kudos to the guy for taking the hit.

The campaign for the general election is going to be horrifyingly ugly

Yeah. I'm gonna be all sheltered in my liberal enclave, but I'm not looking forward to losing my illusions about my fellow Americans. Again.

Weakness is a big theme. They see the world collapsing around them, I think, and they see Trump as the big man who can fix it.

This sort of fits in with the fondness for Putin that I've heard from some of them.