The repulsive 2016 elections have demonstrated more clearly than anything else ever could that our 2-party system is a screaming failure and a grotesque joke. Neither candidate showed integrity, neither candidate could boast an investigation-free past (and no, Hillary supporters, I'm not referring to email issues, I'm talking about shady real-estate deals during her husband's Executive tenure), neither candidate could speak intelligently or substantively about a single issue (although the spin was thick enough to walk on), and neither one operated with even the thinnest veneer of genuine concern for the actual well-being of our country and our people. You both called each other names like you were 4-year-olds. You belittled each other like pre-teen bullies, and made yourselves look like the puerile excuses for adults you are. Democrats, you're whining (yes, whining) about the Electoral College now that it didn't go your way, but you've never complained about it when it has. Republicans, you're crowing (yes, crowing) because you 'won', but your candidate has already cost us untold millions for security, and his "I'm not taking the $400k salary" bit isn't going to put a dent in it. Stop it already.
Now let's be honest: neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party cares one whit about us or this country. They care about the advancement (and the money and power that accompanies it) of their respective parties. Why? Because it advances THEM personally. Want evidence? Congress made it legal to vote themselves raises and cost of living increases, AND made it illegal for them to not be paid (such as during a partisan-caused governmental shutdown). They also voted themselves free healthcare for life. LIFE. They only have to serve one term and they never again have to pay for what many of us spend thousands of dollars a year on (without earning Barbara Boxer's $4.4 million 2016 salary--the highest paid U.S. Senator--or even Dan Coats' $1.7 million for the lowest paid). Incidentally, Democrats have the highest U.S. Congressional salaries and Republicans the lowest. So Democrats, that means that your elected officials have decided that all the money they could be giving away as per their lip-serviced platform is better spent on furthering their important-personage lifestyles, at least in part. The kicker? Those perks have stayed in place whether the majority was DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN. So you all support conniving, cheating, self-interest-driven poseurs that have you frothing at the mouth to believe and disseminate the manipulative garbage they spew. You are lemmings and those of us who watched your behavior in horror during the last 8 months are finally emerging from our shock. Good grief, you're STILL going at it. Let me ask you this: without Googling it, how many of you can name your city council members, mayor, members of your state congress? None of you I'll bet, but those are the people who have the biggest effect on your day-to-day lives, and you don't know who they are, let alone what they're doing. Shame on your ignorance (yes Democrats, you're insanely ignorant too, so suck it up). Hey, here's a great one: I've read Democrat after Democrat calling Republicans "ignorant", but Katy Perry was right up on stage with your candidate wearing I'm not sure what--it looked like a bad department store boxed Halloween costume from the 80's, and urging all of you to vote for Hillary. And you loved it, and crowed (yes, crowed) about all the "A-List Talent" on your side. But Katy Perry is a high school dropout who hasn't even bothered to earn a GED. Proudly, I might add. Google it and be awed by the ridiculousness.
And what about the Liberal Left calling the Conservative Right "ignorant" and "mouth breathers" and "rednecks" (yes, you did get super politically incorrect when things didn't go your way--very "throwing a temper tantrum on the grocery store floor because you didn't get Ho-Ho's" of you). Are you referring to college degrees earned? Because even if you are right (and I can't be bothered to look it up and justify your regressive name-calling), you are belittling the trade educations and the apprenticeship system (the oldest form of education humanity knows, I might add. Again, Google it). All of you computer science majors: who built your apartment building? Repaired the plumbing? Wiring? Fixed your car? Grew your organic vegetables and delivered them to your local hip overpriced grocery store? Because if you didn't build the roof over your head and fix your own transmission, you aren't as educated as you think you are. Idiots.
Conservative Right, I'm not done with you yet. Every nasty, hateful, ridiculous and downright stupid thing you've said just gave those condescending Liberals more ammunition, and unless you're going to adopt every single one of the babies born to women that wanted to abort them as fetuses and shouldn't be able to (according to you), shut your mouths and keep your opinions off our bodies. You aren't "Pro-Life", you're "Pro-Birth": you don't care if they have a life at all, you just want them to be born. You don't care if their parents are neglectful, hateful, cruel, poverty-stricken, immature, incompetent, selfish, stupid, mean, drug or alcohol addicted, previously had children removed from their custody or anything else that ought to matter. You just want them born. I'm the one that's Pro-Life: I believe that IF they are born, they have a right to a decent life. You're the effing idiots. George Carlin (my hero on this subject) put it perfectly when referring to you Conservative fruitcakes: if you're "Pre-Born" you're good, if you're "Pre-School" you're effed. Either put your adoption applications where your mouths are or shut them the hell up.
Immigration: you're all idiots. I sat down with a half-dozen friends on both sides of the issue and came up with a completely workable plan in about 20 minutes. My friends ran it by a dozen-or-so of their friends and came back with "yeah, we can all live with that", so if you believe that the entire complement of the supposedly biggest brains in the country couldn't fix it if they wanted to, you're all dumber than doorknobs. It's an EASY fix, requires only the implementation and the truest definition of compromise (which Congress can force on all of us, but the President cannot). Since neither the Democrats nor the Republicans can find any clear way to benefit from solving the crisis and do benefit from playing the "your fault" game, there will not be a resolution. And if you have two brain cells to rub together, you should see that.
None of us know what the next 4-years will bring other than the fact that at least President-elect Trump is honest about his self-interest, and I find that more respectful than the career politicians thinking I'm dumb enough to believe their lines of BS. The fact remains that if you continue to let these people play you off of each other, you are what is wrong with this country and you are what will doom us all. And those of us who have nothing to do with you, are not lemmings, and posses at least an iota of common sense demand our minority rights, which means you have to do what we want or get lambasted by a grossly-incompetent media. Quit protesting and go to school, go to work, get a volunteer job. Quit typing comment after comment after comment night after night on every bit of political click-bait the MSM drops in front of your manipulated asses. Get your act together and start doing real research and learning things for yourselves and stop following the Mardi-Gras float because it's throwing beer and beads at you. Grow up before you ruin everything for everybody. I'm not going to accept your apology years down the road when you ignore me, but I will be fiddling while Rome burns.
