Skullwise Cat

Hillary, and one that was dirtily disenfranchised by the Democratic party itself, or who voted
third party - or simply stayed home - then that cannot be the fault of the voters. It can only be the
fault of the candidate herself.
From Cornell West:
"White working- and middle-class fellow citizens – out of anger and anguish – rejected the
economic neglect of neoliberal policies and the self-righteous arrogance of elites. Yet these same
citizens also supported a candidate who appeared to blame their social misery on minorities, and
who alienated Mexican immigrants, Muslims, black people, Jews, gay people, women and China
in the process...This lethal fusion of economic insecurity and cultural scapegoating brought
neoliberalism to its knees. In short, the abysmal failure of the Democratic party to speak to the
arrested mobility and escalating poverty of working people unleashed a hate-filled populism and
protectionism that threaten to tear apart the fragile fiber of what is left of US democracy."
To be bitterly blunt, Trump is a fascist freak, and there is no way around this fact. My own
mother calls him an "orange anus." He is odious and incompetent. He's beyond embarrassing, far
more buffoonish and pernicious than Bush. He stokes hate crimes while stoking his own
aggrandized ego. President Comacho from “Idiocracy” has more substance and charm than
Trump.
Which is why it's so confounding that the Democrats did not go full-force in countering Trump's
egregious excesses. He COULD have been easy to beat - and Bernie Sanders would have done so,
if he'd maintained the same compelling campaign as he did in the primaries - but the DNC chose
to run a sinister establishment candidate who pandered to the middle right and in the process
offered no real opposition.
From Cornell West:
"For 40 years, neoliberals lived in a world of denial and indifference to the suffering of poor and
working people ... Despite some progressive words and symbolic gestures, Obama chose to
ignore Wall Street crimes, reject bailouts for homeowners, oversee growing inequality and
facilitate war crimes like US drones killing innocent civilians abroad."
Initially, Obama was a refreshing step up from that clownish fascist, George W. Bush, to be sure.
He was articulate, handsome, dignified, presidential. Everything that Bush was not. And he
propagated a muted progressivism palatable to the masses. The problem is, most of his modestly
progressive ideals have been eclipsed by his catering to neocon “values.” He's droned the hell out
of seven Muslim-majority countries - SEVEN - and coddled Wall Street, cheating millions out of
livable wages - or any wages at all. He's fervidly embraced privatization of public schools and
even brought Black Lives Matter activists literally to tears through a callous dismissal of their
vibrantly valid concerns (mass incarceration, police brutality, declining mobility, etc.) On the
surface, Obama is everything we want in a president, but dig deeper - into the facts of his policies
and achievements, that is - and you will see that he differs only in very subtle ways from the
Republicans. Obama, like Clinton before him, is the very embodiment of neoliberalism, which
neatly sets the stage for neofascism to take hold.