2016 Postmortem

Not that I'm aware of, at least. Then again, I travel in rather restricted social circles and when I break out of that little sphere of interactivity I don't typically talk politics.

Then again, I did know some idjits who voted for Obama because race.

I told one idjit that was utterly gung-ho for Obama that he supported the war in Iraq and opposed increased entitlements, and she ran off delightedly to inform her peers about that bit of wisdom. I imagine that conversation went in an interesting way. Not all tenured PhDs have a clue outside of their particular narrow field. If you support a politician and proselytize for him, you should have an inkling, at least a little itsy-bitsy mini-inkling, as to what he stands for. Instead of voting for skin color.

In other words, there was a liberal band-wagon effect in 2008. In the last election, my kid came home from middle school with the most relevatory stories about Clinton and Trump. Seldom did either have much relationship to the truth. But it's what his peers were saying, and their source of "wisdom" was entirely their parents. I assume that the level of misinformation and disinformation and just plain non-information in circulation was a bit higher than in 2008, but not by so much as an order of magnitude.