Are You Happy Now?

       I’d like to be around in about a hundred years to witness historians trying to explain how an extreme right wing government that rolled back at least 50 years of progress and initiated draconian policies it took generations to undo (I’m being optimistic here) came to power; when the election of the most unqualified man ever to run for President was influenced, at least in part, by zit-faced Macedonians who figured out how to make money producing fake news Facebook click-bait aimed at dim-witted Americans.

If you’re one of the nearly 63 million boneheads that voted for this conman, as my dear mother used to say, “Are you happy, now?” Nothing good can possibly come from this unless you’re an extreme Christian who wants a theocracy or filthy rich since those are the only ones this government is going to benefit. Of all the explanations of a vote for Trump that I read, most were either of the selfish “what’s in it for me” variety or remarkably deluded. An astonishing number thought a proven and compulsive liar was more trustworthy than Hillary, mostly based on long debunked, bogus scandals the news media helped along by constantly focusing on them. One claimed to be a undecided guy who at the last minute went for the orange face because people in the voting line said mean things about Trump supporters.  By far the most deluded and fucked-up came from Asra Q. Nomani, a Muslim woman and former Wall Street Journal reporter whose justification of a fear of jihadis was beyond ludicrous. At least her complaints of being unable to afford health insurance under Obamacare won’t be an issue for her much longer since health insurance for millions like her won’t even be possibile. Each justification was ill reasoned, narrow or petulant in its own way. 

So now we’ve got a shithead who’s proud of his own ignorance moving into the White House. And his swamp draining is going to be carried out by folks as filthy or filthier rich than he is. The one common thread so far is that most of them have no more experience or qualifications for the job they’ll be doing than he does. 

Welcome to the Rockefeller Democrat

WHAT THE FUCK I MEAN WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK WERE YOU THINKING? YOU KNEW HE WAS A FUCKING DOUCHEBAG CONMAN AND YOU VOTED FOR HIM ANYWAY! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU HAVE YOU ALL LOST  WHATEVER FUCKING MINDS YOU HAD? OKAY, IF YOU VOTED FOR THIS MOTHERFUCKER ITS ON YOU. YOU AND THE ONES WHO WERE TOO LAZY AND DIDN’T CARE ENOUGH TO EVEN GET OFF THEIR FAT ASSES AND OUT OF THEIR LAZ-Y-BOYS TO VOTE!

    There, that feels better.

    Welcome to my new blog. Probably the last thing the world needs right now is another political blog. But Americans have just elected the most profoundly unqualified and dangerously ignorant man ever to run for President. This is not just disturbing but frightening and as an expat living in France I’ve been trying to figure out what to do, now that the orange fraud named Trump is headed for the White House. This is the best I could come up with and it seemed as good a time as any to get rolling.
   
    Let me start by explaining the title.  Once I considered myself one of a political species that, like all moderate Republicans, are now extinct.  They were called Rockefeller Republicans (for reasons you can read about here) and probably could have found a home in either American party. In my case, my family had been Republicans since at least the 1880’s when one of my great-grandfather’s first official acts as a new American had been to join the party of Abraham Lincoln. More apropos to the present, today’s Democratic Party is, despite the claims of the Fox News crowd, more or less a center-right party closer to the aforementioned Rockefeller Republicans than they would care to admit (or at least it was until election day).  Hence the title of this blog.