General Discussion

Not voting for Democrats even when it means potentially devastating consequences because they imagine Democrats "failed to honor a bargain whose terms she, as a citizen, felt free to shift according to her whim. It was an argument of such subjective force, and ingrained entitlement, as to be impervious. ... She saw no relationship between her life and the election beyond the lazy hope that the new guy would give her more stuff than the last. She felt no need to evaluate the veracity of the claims made by or about either candidate, the policies they proposed, or the likely consequences of these policies. This negligence didn't make her exceptional. It made her typical. ... she represents our national habit of taking our grievances seriously but not our vulnerabilities."

Steve Almond, "Bad Stories, What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country"