The Blind Leading the Blind ...

And with that, the Democrats have opted to take the path that leads them back into the spiraling Washington establishment because there is a tremendous lack of accountability.

... so we're blaming the FBI director who I will also candidly admit: played politics when it wasn't his place to. None.

But that doesn't address the larger issue Dems.

As I pointed out in the previous blog entry it's not Hillary's fault really. It's the heart of the democrat machine - and how they STILL ... continue ... to ignore the real reason why they lost the election this year.

It wasn't because of the damn emails.
It wasn't because of Benghazi-gate.
It wasn't even Bill. ...well that's not true - it's partly Bill, but not for the reasons you suspect.

No Dems ...

It was willful disregarding the grass-roots effort generated by one Bernard Sanders, former independent candidate from state of Vermont. He built a movement that reached the broadest amount of people. He did it without influence from corporations. He listened. He championed and he resonated with the base across all demographics, all races, all ages.

In addition to listening, he figured out how to do stuff without the blessings of the democratic party.

Why? What happened?

The democrats were bent out of shape that he left the party ... AND ... I strongly suspect that at some point in the last eight years, Hillary was basically "given" the chance to run in 2016 - as an agreement after the primaries of 2008 when Obama pressed forward into the national limelight. He was the best choice - and unfortunately the wrong choice. Because that's when the division it created in this country was substantial.

Every Republican vowed to block anything Obama was about to do - and they did it brilliantly.

So - Washington gridlock - for almost 8 years. Yes, Obama was able to get things through - but the democrats were doing a WONDERFUL job at shooting themselves in the foot, feet, hands, and arms and legs and ..... you get the point. But in that 8 year virtual gridlock, the approval ratings for both parties continued to plummet. Nothing was getting done - and yet - the press was completely on board with not correctly assigning the proper blame on the right party ...

Media corruption - yeah - nothing new there - but another blog entry on that probably forthcoming on that subject.

So with both parties suffering and everyone decrying for a change ... one party made a change ... one party did not. One party went against the status quo ... one party went back to the establishment.

Even a buffoon like Trump - an idiot - the most insane choice was so far out of the establishment ... that it resonated with voters. People who were sick and tired of the same crap happening in Washington had a hero that would liberate them from the nonsense.

Trump was that hero.
And Hillary would assume her role as the villain to a T ... and she had no idea she was even doing it.

The play was set.

Prognosticators, pundits, and smart people - all lauded how Hillary was going to make this a slam dunk. It was in the bag ... because - how can the idiot actually win?!?  It was so incredibly inconceivable ... so far fetched ... so imaginary ....

... and perfectly executed.

The Republicans played chess ... the Democrats played tic-tac-toe ....

They abandoned the template Obama used in 2008 when he beat her the first time ... which is also the reason why Bernie didn't stand a chance this time around. Without any support from the Democrats, Sanders was able to energize folks to making a serious change in Washington. Hillary talked the talk - but she was always linked to Bill ... the establishment of 8 years that went wrong in the eyes of every Republican historian.

So -

The Democrats:
- were highly annoyed and agitated by Bernie from leaving the party
- ignored Bernie's popularity
- practically engraved Hillary's path to the White House as the primaries were just getting started
- ignored the mass of folks that supported Bernie
- ignored the establishment association / link between Hillary and Washington
- thought they had this in the bag.

... and they aren't taking responsibility at the places they need to. Debbie Wassermann Schultz - and the shit she pulled in her political life should be made into a book someday. She undermined several things Obama did - and she became the human shield for Hillary when primary season until Wikileaks finally revealed her part in this elaborate play.

The heir-apparent was destined for the White House ...

... AND ...

They had no contingency otherwise.

They had no backup plan.

Because Trump was supposed to lose handily ... and he didn't.

The Democrats ran blindly into the sun - and lost complete track where they were in the map of things.

And they lost. Badly.

Sure - Hillary has incredible margins overall, but she lost in places she should've been stronger in. Footholds that have been democratic for Obama.

They - for whatever reason - decided it to do it completely different and it backfired. They messed up a perfectly workable formula - and they abandoned the template they needed to follow.

So ...

Democrats only have themselves to blame on this one.

... and I feel bad for Hillary too. She ran the hardest campaign she could ... but it was destined to fail before it was finalized at the convention. They have to own that ... they have to learn from that - or they haven't learned anything from this experience.

Latest news today was in the fact that folks were polled and Bernie would've destroyed Trump ....

... well - that didn't happen folks ... but it's nice to think about what could've been.

Because the next four years are going to suck .... but more on that in a blog entry to come ....

Got what you wanted 'merca ....

It's been well over a year since I've been here. 

I'm still alive - still kicking. My I slumped into a deep dark political depression. 

Something is definitely askew in American politics and I've grown exceptionally ill to what's being served. I was opining yesterday to a work-friend of mine that the problem with the universe isn't the fact that we've elected a misogynistic, racist, class-celebratory idiot to the White House ... because the roots were long since there ... Trump just brought them out, highlighted them and soothed them that it's okay to be anti-women, anti-minority, hate-mongering and everything.

Read that again: It's OKAY to be those things ... 

THAT is what America has become. 

I know there will be an excessive amount of finger pointing happening in the Democrat camp in the days to come - but the top echelon of the party really has to do an honest evaluation of things. Never in political history has one party seized as much control as occurred last night. 

It's a testament that our collective souls are black, angry, spiteful and surprisingly accepting of intolerance that breeds among us.

Democrats failed to recognize the trend of voters ... who are tired of how Washington runs.

Democrats failed to unite a clearly divided country. 

Democrats emphatically went with the establishment.

Democrats lack vision and fortitude. 

This is NOT Hillary's fault. 

This is NOT a testament about women or their capability to run America.

We're clearly READY for a woman to run America ... the Democrats chose an established Washington candidate as their choice for America to vote on ... and America rejected that establishment. 

NPR had the best summation of the night: "Exit polls show Obama has a 54% approval rating. This election isn't rejecting Obama, it's rejecting Washington."

Washington is burning this morning .. and that's a red glow we see coming from the east. 

Now we have to fix it. 

I'm not sure SpoonsRant will be resurrected. 

I'm still in a very depressed state of mind - and probably more so. 

... but maybe I have finally hit bottom. 

There's a lot of work to do ... 

... so ... what now?