I’m pretty certain that if Clinton had been Republican, I’d have been mad as anything that he had been caught dead to rights lying under oath, which is pretty damn serious, and nobody cared. Of course, he’s not, and I think the whole thing was ridiculous.
As for Trump - all the incompetence hasn’t actually resulted in nuclear war (yet) or the establishment of the Fourth Reich (yet). For all the corruption, he hasn’t actually been caught with a briefcase full of thousand dollar notes (yet). So for the vast majority, it’s just noise at the same level as Clinton’s gaffe.
Really, when it comes down to it, I suspect that my despair is that most people don’t care about what I care about.
And for the most part, it looks like most voters are cemented into their parties. Makes sense to me. If I was American and Stalin was the Democrat choice, I’d still not be voting Republican. I can’t imagine most Republicans are any different. (Thank God for a three part system in Canada…)
As an aside, I find myself wondering…
I suspect Trump will be one of the least effective Republican presidents in terms of getting policy passed simply because he’s so incompetent. Yet I find him far more upsetting that someone who would likely be far more effective at getting bad policies put through. Is this because the symbolic victory of the forces of everything I despise are far more important to me than the actual damage that those policies would inflict?
I’m beginning to suspect so.
Not certain I’m happy about that.
