agip wrote:
Trollminator wrote:
Amazing but shouldn’t be surprising when you think about it this way:
When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
― H.L. Mencken
So it is quite insightful that Obama represents the inner soul of one half and Trump that of the other half.
meh
this hasn't happened before. We've elected bad presidents but never one like this. At least not since 1900. This is new and not a continuation of previous patterns.
Although yeah bush2 was pretty stupid too. But he didn't set out to dismantle the postwar global order, revile the free press, instigate religious tests, recommend racism, and change what it means to be an American.
meh
Ah, poor baby liberal loses again. Sour puss leftist goes down. Yes, Hillary would have been worse and Obama stunk to the sky and back. You looked away at his daily misdoings because of his race and political party. You sir are a flaming retard.