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[quote=Anonymous]Opinion piece from WaPo today...

Trumpism is a lifestyle disease, chronic in America
A Trump supporter at a rally in mid-October in Greenville, N.C.
A Trump supporter at a rally in mid-October in Greenville, N.C. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

By 
[quote]Philip Kennicott
Art and architecture critic
November 6, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST

[i]Early in the afternoon after the election, I drove east into Washington from rural Virginia, past the old farmhouse with its small outbuildings that were probably slave quarters, past the hay bales painted red, white and blue and emblazoned with “Trump 2020,” past the battlefield at Manassas, preserved in memory of this country’s most devastating period of civil discord. Nothing about the American landscape struck me as beautiful, or quaint or appealingly rustic, as it sometimes has, and my mind refused the old dance of seeing the best in the things, the picturesque old cabins, the thought that the horses wouldn’t care what their hay once said, the charm of the old killing fields now green and placid and a welcome punctuation in the jumble of suburban sprawl.

No matter what happens to Donald Trump, and who assumes the presidency in January, we can say this: He brought the truth of America to the surface. I’ll leave his policies and his politics — to the extent that he ever had policies or coherent politics — to the pundits. As a critic, I can say that he embodied, embraced or inflamed almost everything ugly in American culture, past, present and perhaps future. He made it palpable and tangible even to people inclined to see the bright side of everything. That this week’s election wasn’t a repudiation of Trumpism, that some 6 million more Americans believe in it now than did four years ago, is horrifying. But it’s also reality, and it’s always best to face reality.[/i][/quote]

So true.  I am a Biden supporter and I am still mentally prepared for Trump to win the election.  Even a Biden victory is not a comfort for me because it is horrible that so many people are racists and backwards.  I have no respect for America left and if I could leave, I would.  I am ashamed to be an American, I am ashamed of this country, I am ashamed that this democracy with gerry mandering and electoral college is a joke, I am ashamed how the supreme court seats were filled, I am ashamed that Trump was ever the president, I am ashamed that we don't believe in Science.

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