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?