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Source: Morning of 11/9 after Election Night Drawing 9/11 Comparison « CBS Boston

From the hysterical headlines pouring forth from the major media outlets after the Trump electoral victory you’d think that the people voted for someone who drowned kittens for amusement. Here’s a sample of the hysteria:

American Muslims react:

Celebs move:

Lady Gaga, Miley:

Science at risk:

Earth to stop spinning:

Ok, I made up the last one, but the chorus of moaning, bleating  and wailing is deliciously comical and familiar if you’ve ever been around kindergartners, except that this is happening with supposedly grown adults.  Recall that 8 years ago, a person was ushered into office with little to no political experience, certainly no useful business experience, whose orotund promises of halting the oceans’ rise and unifying the races was met with nary a blink  among rational people.

Contrast this to the new President elect who, while also lacking in political experience has actually achieved substantial success in life, contributing and participating in the classic American dream.  Protests against the Trump election are actually protests against their fellow Americans.  This wasn’t a result imposed by royal fiat; they are protesting the judgement of their fellow neighbors. We don’t recall crying and protests in the streets and campuses in 2008.  It’s the old cliché that it all depends on whose ox is being gored.

There’s a TV ad in which people drive around in a car shaped like a dog, depicting the degree to which people can become “smell blind”. Lost among the dire bleats of the snowflakes is the underlying reality that a large segment of the populace figured out that the place stunk.  That large segment of the population are more concerned with legitimate employment, exploding debt and national security than with safe places and rude language.  As we’ve mentioned previously, it was about turfing people who were professional politicians…on both sides of the political aisle.  This election was as much about cleaning house as it was personalities.

As an example, the governor elect of Missouri is Eric Greitens, a political neophyte, but an ex-Navy Seal and businessman who ousted a politico with 22 years of political tenure.  Tammy Duckworth, a democrat and former soldier, ousted Mark Kirk, a Republican in Illinois.   And of course Trump, whose lifetime of business experience, bested Clinton with her lifetime of shuffling papers and rubber chicken dinners.  Political office was never intended to be a career vocation.  People didn’t so much vote for Trump as they voted against cronyism.

If the election of Trump followed 8 years of peace in the world, full employment, reduced debt, societal harmony and of course falling sea levels, we can see the angst of the snowflakes who fear that will all change.  In fact, it’s just the opposite.  The election result will not only put a halt to cronyism, it hopefully stops the spread of delusion.

link With liberals pining for a Clinton challenger, ambitious Democrats get in position – The Washington Post.

And so the farce continues.  Anxious to show that the Democratic buffet has more than just Hilary to serve, they are pushing possible contenders to be alternate menu items to the devoted faithful.  As of now, the choices are, leftover meatloaf, pemican or a pick of a duo of mixed nuts.

The only thing delicious about this tortured analogy is the irony since there is nothing on the Democratic table that is remotely fresh or new considering that the barb most often hurled at the Republican party is that they are the party of old white men.

Like most positions that emanate from the Democratic party, their presumptive candidates are hopelessly out of touch and lost in the past.  Clinton, Warren and Brown are relics of the hippie past in America, holdouts from the 60’s in their mindsets and worldviews.  Biden, if he is a contender, is a relic of Archie comics.   These people have as much in common with the sensibilities of  the present generation of voters  as cheese does to head cheese.  The fact that the party is unable to attract anyone to be their standard bearer who isn’t already collecting a seniors’ pension is very telling.  The contrast with the core values of the party of “old white men” couldn’t be more stark.

Whereas one party harps on the tired core values of entitlement and fantasy, the other party has a plethora of young capable leaders whose visions have an arm’s reach connection with reality.  Most could be the children of the aged Dem candidates.  Many have already proven their talents in actually running state governments with effective results whereas on the Dem side, most of them are professional politicos.  There is enough range in the positions of those on the Republican side that there is not just one tired monolithic message that followers are obligated to subscribe to as if in a moonie cult.

If I were looking to dine at the Democratic buffet table, I’m not sure I’d be all that excited about the addition of Jerry Brown to the offerings.  The stuff that’s on the table now has been there a long time, some of it passed over and adding more leftovers doesn’t make it more attractive.  Of course that doesn’t mean that there’s no appetite for this.  America loves buffets.  It perpetuates the myth that you can get a lot for very little.