It occurred to me today, after a couple of forays into the Facebook Comments Jungle, that Hillary Clinton's defeat last November demonstrates clearly that American voters WANT to be pandered to. Lie to us. Please. We don't care about what's possible or feasible. Throw us those big, puffed-up catch phrases and feel-good slogans and we'll latch on like piglets to a hog's teat.
I honestly think that the reason Mrs. Clinton had such a hard time "connecting" with voters is that she was under the direly mistaken impression that people wanted to hear real answers to real concerns. The poor fool squandered precious time crafting policy and solutions, time that she SHOULD have spent pandering to "the base." She SHOULD have promised the pie-in-the-sky progressive utopia that she knew had no chance in hell of ever becoming reality--like Bernie Sanders did. She SHOULD have promised that energy and steel and mill and manufacturing jobs would all be forced to come back, and the disappearing middle class would rise again--like Trump did.
Instead, having some insight into how the office of President actually functioned, she tried to present the issues and the solutions as she knew they might possibly even come about, given how our government does (or does not) work.
But American voters were very clear about what kind of "reality" they were on board with...and it wasn't the kind Hillary Clinton was offering.
Now we have to live with the reality we chose.
So... When does the part where America gets "great" again start?
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