Hillary was victim to the biggest farce of a democratic election

[triron]

in US history. In many other countries in the world the populace would be rising up to
rid their government of such vermin as Trump et al. I fear for our 'democracy'.

[SHRED]

1. It's hard to explain

Are we just lazy?

[Pachamama]

2. Sadly....yes...

And also some of our citizens have lost their moral compass and have no sense of honoring their country and the meaning of what we were founded on and the definition of a democracy....

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. apathy via social networking and reality shows plays a large pot....also RW hate radio

but....apathy. for sure.

[CrispyQ]

12. And comfortable and distracted.

Most of my friends & family are not political bugs like I am. They were all fired up after the Con's election/inauguration. They went to marches & post card parties where they wrote to Paul Ryan. The first 10 minutes of our writing group was spent dissing the Con. Now? Two of my friends told me they are tired of it all & don't want to hear about it, & one said life has gotten in the way, when I asked her if she'd called Cory Gardner about the ACA vote. The only ones still paying attention are the ones that were paying attention before.

My theory is that if you haven't been paying attention to politics for a long time, your outrage meter gets overloaded & you have to back away. I've been a political bug since 1975 when the Gary Hart for Senate campaign was across the street from my part time job & I figured it was a way to meet college boys. Little did I realize, I'd got bitten by the bug & have been political my entire adult life.

There's another part of me that is cynical & says that people will only act when it affects them personally. Most people still have it pretty damned good in this country.

[DK504]

3. Yes. And the media needs to admit that and

take responsibility for their part in getting him elected.

The rest of the world aren't as docile, like sheep, as we have become.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

5. Hopefully, 2020 will be different.

[spanone]

6. we appear ripe for a demagogue like trump...

his followers feel like they are the persecuted ones and he feeds them daily

he's more dangerous than any president we've ever had.

[Billy Jingo]

7. We are a decadent, bovine culture

The righteous hero American is a lie we tell ourselves.

[democratisphere]

8. We're complacent and just plain chickensh't.

For now, our democracy is on hold, at best.

[BSdetect]

9. Murdoch and Fox managed to dumb down much of the public even more than it already was

[rainin]

10. We're done if we don't stop fox. n/t

[FiveGoodMen]

13. ...with a lot of help from the Southern Baptist mega-churches and TV preachers

[triron]

11. OTOH we are supposedly a nation where 'rule of law' is tantamount.

Being my own devil's advocate.

[triron]

14. kick again