I see it a little differently

Posted on: November 9, 2016 at 08:58:44 CT

First, most people, or, at least, enough people, ARE rubes or simpletons to the point that they will not rationally weigh out the decision at hand. This is why political attack ads "work." This is why all the one-liners in the debates and in interviews "work." Emotion and gut feeling play an enormous role.

The other thing that seems to be at play here is: you have one candidate who is completely an outsider to "the system" - but completely inflammatory; and you have one candidate that is very much an "insider" to the system, and apparently, corrupt if not criminal. Many may have decided to vote for the inflammatory outsider, causing potential short-term harm to the country, in order to vote against the corruption of the system by the other candidate.

Perhaps the weirdest thing is that we had an election where most would agree that the best thing about either candidate is that they weren't the other candidate.

o'l-d