I honestly can say I do not know the future.
I really, truly believed that Obama would lose in 2008 because he was so inexperienced and had a truly, deliberately hidden past.
I really, truly believed Romney would win in 2012 because after the TEA party, the victory in Congress, the Supremes saying Obamacare was okay as it was a tax... No WAY, I thought, would people of the country be fooled by Obama again...
Well, there is one big lesson I learned:
The majority of American voters are morons.
The problem with dumb people is they don’t realize they’re dumb, and keep either repeating the same ignorant actions or create whole new ignorant actions. These actions/choices have a detrimental effect to them, but they’re too stupid to realize that.
The problem for the rest of us—they’re the majority and their dumbass voting preferences screw us all, collectively.
Politicians are well tuned to this behavior and mainly realize that no matter what they promise, if they look good on TV and people think they’re the “cool kids”, they’ll get voted in.
This explains darn near everything.
Why Obama won. Twice.
Why the Republican won, first the House, then the Senate (promises never kept; laughed about, then Trump RINO’ed).
Why all the lying women about Trump sexually assaulting/harrasing them is so popular.
How big media brainwashes people: Christians (bigoted fanatics); gays (lovable, cutesy fuzzballs), white people (dumb racists), black people (smart, cool, athletic), illegal immigrants (poor miserable down-trodding peasants who anyone who is against is a Hitler)... Well, you get the picture. Because it’s on ABC/CBS/NBC every night in Primetime.
How to say it simply: democrat: cool
Republican: Evil, not cool.
McCain was no Trump.
Romney was no Trump. In fact, Romney and Obama has socialized medicine and to a degree, gun control, in common.
Both those elections were a choice between Frick, and Frack. This time the election is different, and everybody who is following it, feels it.
For someone who teaches at a major University and provides technical s/w for various organizations - you should be one of the first to know the 20/80 rule.
Yes, 80% of all work is done by 20% of the people at any organization.
The 80/20 rule applies to all of life, including the distribution of intelligence and rational thinking.
Most people prefer to be told what to do - Making decisions and living with your choices in not for the average ding dong, here in the U.S.A. or anywhere else in the world
It i is called Public School....
I consider PS the equivalent of Child abuse