I’m not back yet….

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I just can't get my head around how binary our choices as Democrats are right now. It is all so stupid and reductive. There are Democrats here who were flat out wrong and have been wrong for years about how to fight Republicans, but they can't budge. It would reveal that they were wrong. That Clinton was the wrong choice, who made poor campaign choices... whatever. That's yesterday's news. I don't mind revealing when I'm wrong, and I've tried to think through what I've been wrong about on this blog. So much... where to start? I made a game out of the Republican primary race. I thought Trump was a joke. Wrong and wronger still. As much as I know that it is naive I still thought that "the truth" would matter. Wrong. I'm still searching for something productive to do or say to get beyond how wrong I've been. Hopefully what I come up with will be something to "do" and not something to "say" as I think the old adage from fiction writing is fitting - show, don't tell.
The November 28, 2016 Thread

The November 28, 2016 Thread

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Donald Trump tweeted without evidence that millions of people voted illegally in November’s presidential election, Politico reports. Said Trump: “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” This is a lie taken directly from InfoWars. But if Trump does believe that there are millions of frauduelent votes out there, it would seem that he just endorsed a nationwide recount. Thanks Donald. Ezra Klein: “This tweet is an example of one of Trump’s other dangerous qualities: his tendency to believe what he wants to believe about the world, facts be damned. Trump lost the popular vote, and he lost it by a wide margin — more than 2 million votes and counting. A wise man would take that information seriously and think about how to staff his White House, set priorities, and moderate his message to win over a majority of the public. Instead, Trump appears to have told himself the vote count was riddled with fraud and that he really did win a majority of the legitimate vote — and thus he doesn’t need to consider what it means that most voters didn’t want him to win the presidency.”