{"id":2380,"date":"2016-11-18T17:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T01:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2016-11-18T17:47:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T01:47:18","slug":"called-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"Called it"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is what \u201cno future\u201d means. \u00a0This is unsustainable. When people are endorsing a candidate on the basis that everything he\u2019s said for the last year and a half is false, and what he said before that is true, and obviously he\u2019ll go back to the way he was, and the people who pushed him to the right will go along with this – that is <\/em>insane. \u00a0If logic doesn\u2019t matter, if reason doesn\u2019t matter, if the words coming out of the candidate\u2019s mouth don\u2019t matter, then there\u2019s no point in even <\/em>attempting to have a democracy or anything like it. \u00a0If truth means nothing, if reality means nothing\u2026well, welcome to everything people bemoaned back when I was in college English. Welcome\u00a0to the truly and completely postmodern world. If we as a nation actually decide that the truth is whatever you want it to be\u2026well, maybe there\u2019s enough medication and booze to help me see the world that way.<\/em><\/p>\n

-5 Nov 2012<\/p>\n

Forget everything you hear about the \u201cmoderate Republicans\u201d or the \u201cgrownups\u201d \u2013 there\u2019s not a dime\u2019s worth of difference between the GOP and the Tea Party, there never was, and the successful laundering of the Republican label in the wake of 2008 while going even further to the right is one of the amazing mysteries of our time\u2026.And don\u2019t underestimate the chance of Clinton Fatigue dragging Hillary down to the point where he \u2013 or another of his neo-confederate pals in Amen Corner \u2013 finds himself in the Oval Office on January 20, 2017…Better days are coming. \u00a0<\/em>They can\u2019t live forever. \u00a0The only catch is, can we last long enough to ride it out.<\/em><\/p>\n

-20 Nov 2014<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

My mistake was in thinking that 2012 really was last call. I was right about Clinton Fatigue, except that Hillary actually finished with over a million more votes than Trump. What I wasn\u2019t really prepared for was that the FBI would sandbag her, or that Russian misinformation would be gladly laundered through Wikileaks and Facebook, or that the press would run with it in a spirit of false equivalence and that we as a nation would just let that go<\/em>, and that it could be enough to thread the needle in enough states to allow this to happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But this should be the take-home: for the second time in the last five elections, the popular vote winner lost the election. That hadn\u2019t happened for over a century. Now, two out of the last 5. 40% is a bad failure rate for a democracy in the 21st century, and that can\u2019t be left to lie if we want to keep it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is what \u201cno future\u201d means. \u00a0This is unsustainable. When people are endorsing a candidate on the basis that everything he\u2019s said for the last year and a half is false, and what he said before that is true, and obviously he\u2019ll go back to the way he was, and the people who pushed him … <\/p>\n

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