Stop Your Whining!
I’m sick and fed up to the back teeth with it!
So Donald Trump got himself elected again, and suddenly Medium is hip-deep in fear, incredulity, bafflement and protest!
“How could it happen?” They cry. “Has everyone gone mad?” They moan. “Are Americans so stupid?” They wail. “America is doomed!” They prophesy.
For. Fucks’. Sake!!!
In this corner, a man everybody in America recognises. A man who has an answer for every problem faced by ordinary people. Wrong answers, silly answers, dangerous answers, but ANSWERS! A man who has policies. Tyrannical policies, inhumane policies, unconstitutional policies, policies that are impossible to enact, policies that might well destroy the economy, but POLICIES!
In the other corner, a well-meaning, hard-working but rather doddery and absent-mined old coot. Ooops! No, sorry, we now have a youngish, clever and mildly attractive woman of colour who was shooed into the candidacy without any process of choice. Nobody elected her, there was no pretence of a contest or presentation of alternatives. Despite the presence of several experienced and capable people who could have been put forward, we get a newbie. So she’d been Vice-President, a nothing post with no official duties and all the clout of a puff of air. Whoop-de-do!
