When good men do nothing...

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~Attributed to Edmund Burke

“Both parties are the same, man.” ~Chairman Meow, of the Red Dot Army (who may be an eventual guest-blogger here, whenever he puts down the catnip.) [For the record, Comrade Harun was joking, a lot of people...weren't.]

So, in asking various co-workers over the last week, I've found one very discouraging trend: One hell of a lot of Bernie Supporters, Clinton Supporters, and young people in general just plain didn't vote. In spite of that, in nearly every state Clinton lost...had the Third Party voters voted for Her, it would have made up the difference and we wouldn't be dealing with President-elect Trump and all this White Supremacist bullshit right now, and that's a fucking fact. We might have some other problem instead...but I doubt it would be equivalent to the one we're currently facing.

False equivalence is a logical fallacy in which two opposing arguments appear to be logically equivalent when in fact they are not. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency.

When a few issues with E-mails and private servers are put on the same level as bigotry of all kinds, cheating of contractors, incompetence, multiple divorces, multiple bankruptcies, racism, sexism, and somebody's word being utterly worthless...*That* my friends, is False equivalence. When somebody, hell, anybody, can look at Hillary Clinton and and Donald Trump and conclude that the two are basically the same, so they're going to vote for Jill Stein or Harambe the dead gorilla or some other woo woo bullshit to prove some kind of a point that only they understand...that is a serious cognitive failure on the part of enough voters to throw the election and quite possibly train-wreck our country.

Barack Obama said it, Bernie Sanders said it, Hillary Clinton said it: “Don't boo, vote!” When 49%-and-change of our population didn't even bother to show up at the voting booth (and 25% or so voted for each major candidate) I can only determine that roughly 74% of our people don't actually give a shit about Democracy, given Trump's stated intentions and who he has surrounded himself with. Given the various evil acts being done by all these racists and shit, the protests by leftist idiots who (I'm guessing) would rather protest than vote, and that riot in Portland...I honestly wonder if this country is going to fall apart over the course of the next couple of years. Maybe all you young folks that have the rest of your lives to put shit back together are OK with that. This old man...isn't. All this could have been avoided, except that a lot of good people...across the board...did nothing.

Thanks, now I gotta live with that, and so do a lot of the rest of us.