You Hate the Candidate

YOU HATE THE CANDIDATE! You hate the candidate! He is a populist demagogue – dangerous, deranged and despicable! You did it to yourselves! You developed a “southern strategy”, reduced your once-proud neighbors from citizens with a mission to whiny tapped-out taxpayers, impatient and paranoid, intransigent and scared! Sure of moral high ground, you launched your religion into your neighbors’ bedrooms, their genetic histories, their public school curriculums; made compromise a sin, shut down our government only to re-open it with calls for a theocratic state, dragging your god through the fear-funded excrement of political campaigns, bad radio talk, planned parenthood vigils, your vaunted Christianity a department of corrections on a national scale So, you hate the candidate! A man of anger and intolerance! But you did it to yourselves, and like the petulant child whose unforgivable negligence let the fire get out of hand, you did it to the rest of us too!