Stupid

     I'm not posting this to Facebook (yet) as I keep my promises, and when I last posted it said, "I won't do this again any time soon."  However, that promise doesn't prohibit posting here on the blog, "Thank you very much!"

     A friend whom I knew in college who was, and likely still is, a very nice person re-posted something picked up from some conservative website dedicated to hating on Democrats.  It said something along the order of "How could so many people be stupid enough to vote for Hillary?"  I don't remember if it was phrased as a question, but that's the question that needs an answer.

     Nothing here has anything to do with your opinions about things that talk show hosts may have convinced you of regarding either the Clinton's politics or their financial dealings.  I don't want to go there.  I don't know anything about that.  I merely want to address 'stupid'....oh, and to mention something about "this is 3 years ago....really?"

     1.  "Stupid" is a word used by children to express their anger at a friend or a sibling.  For an adult it generally needs to remain in fairly private use.  Fine, if you want to tell a friend "Boy, those Democrats are stupid."  I'm not the thought police, but posting it in a public forum is a reflection more on you than it is on them.  And I think your mom taught you better.

     2.  Accuracy counts, just like truth counts.  Statistically speaking, you may be smarter than somewhere around 1/2 of those people, and 'stupider' than the other half.  That's the way statistics works.  Even if you are a super-genius of some kind, you're likely only a bit smarter than the rest in terms of the ability to make an informed decision, especially as "genius often comes with a price."

     3.  I think you would take offense if I categorized all Trump supporters as exactly the same....dumb, misinformed, and racist....which I don't.  I'm pretty sure Trump supporters came from many walks of life.  My list is not likely to be all-inclusive....sorry about that.
      A.  There are those who voted for him simply because he was the Republican choice.
      B.  Still more looked at the immigrant issue and simply wanted a wall. 
      C.  And some, not many in my opinion, who understood what the Trump presidency would be. (I'm fairly sure that more count themselves in this camp than is actually the fact, neither here nor there for this argument.)
       D.  But I think the real clincher part of the population was from those listened and were thrilled at his disrespective-of-the-system rhetoric.

     4.  Let's not make the mistake of categorizing everyone who voted for Hillary as stupid.  Like the Trump voters, they are a diverse lot.
        A.  Some voted Democratic.
        B.  Some saw an intelligent, capable woman whom they believed could best handle the job.
        C.  Some weighed the candidates and thought Hillary the better choice.
        D.  And others looked at the candidates, saw them both as:
                  I. Too much a part of the system, one political and one financial.
                  II.  Rather abrasive, each in their own way.
                  III.  Unlikely to be an improvement.
     So, some voter choices were made on the basis of  the-lesser-of-two-evils....could have gone either way.

     You may think me liberal simply because I'm not exactly in the Trump camp but, as always, I speak with honesty.  While I didn't think I really wanted such an abrasive individual, Trump, in the White House, neither did I wish to see Hillary in residence there.  I didn't like Bush 2 and I didn't think we needed a Clinton 2, both smacking of elitism in that office.  But I also think people with too much money (Trump) tend to think much like the kings of old....that they are there

by "Divine Right".  

"Would I be here if God didn't want me here?"

Why don't we all think like that?   I don't accuse God when I get sick, why would I credit him for things to my benefit?  Things happen....and Trump saw opportunity in a divided America that was losing faith in its political system.  His timing was perfect.

     Here's the non-liberal part.  I applaud you, America and Americans, for electing Trump.  I really think the system is broken and Trump was one way to try to break it.

 HOWEVER,

with my apologies to all you conservatives, I don't think he's the answer, I think he's only the message.  With his destruction of national monuments in the name of mining and extraction, he's just another rich guy helping himself and his cronies to the spoils of the nation and the earth.

So, elect me if you want....I do dishes, scrub floors, cut firewood...all-in-all, work hard, don't lie, respect different points of view, and promise not to think I was 'chosen'.