You Lost

OK, listen, here it is - you lost. ‎ Let's go through some of this -

- Pruitt for EPA.  He feels that the EPA has overreached.  S‎hocking.  Someone who believes is lesser (more balanced?) environmental regulation has been proposed for appointment by a Republican president-elect.  Not a member of the vaunted and undoubtedly to-be worshiped Green Party?  Shocking.  Hard to believe.  Oh, that's right, I forgot . . . Hillary didn't win.

- Sessions for attorney general.  He has a long and distinguished career, but does not believe that chasing down every racial, ethnic and behavioral identifying characteristic is necessarily a sacrosanct endeavor.  A‎ conservative early supporter of the Republican president-elect has been proposed for appointment.  Not Eric Holder for a return tour?  All of this is shocking.  Hard to believe.  Oh, that's right, I forgot . . . Hillary didn't win.

- Flynn for NSA.  A man who believes that the Muslim approach is more political than religious.  And believes that the credo is dangerous.  (Can we get a cogent and staid debate on points of view along those lines, please?)  Should the NSA have been someone who's afraid to utter the words‎, "radical Islamic terrorism"?  All of this is shocking.  Hard to believe.  Oh, that's right, I forgot . . . Hillary didn't win.

- Pudzer for Labor.  He's against an increase in the minimum wage, as are many people not registered as Democrats.  H‎e's against other employee protections that, while well-intentioned, may well wind up hurting businesses and therefore employees.  And he likes advertisements with pretty girls.  Not Michael Moore?  All of this is shocking.  Hard to believe.  Oh, that's right, I forgot . . . Hillary didn't win.

- Etc., etc., etc.

And frankly it's not merely that Hillary didn't win.  The down-ballot Democrats got wiped out.  R‎epublicans trounced in the governors' mansions and state legislatures.  And Hillary won only a microscopic number of counties across this Great Land, if you look at the county-by-county electoral map‎.  

‎I guess I'm starting to understand the so-fun-to-watch weeping and crying of ever so many Hillary supporters on The Day After.  They were at the early stages of understanding that their Team maybe just might not make it into positions from which they could govern.  Then I guess they forgot or refused to accept or whatever, and so react with shock and amazement as every appointment incomprehensively turns away from their failed agenda.  As Capt. Louis Renault said as he entered the casino, "I am shocked - shocked - to find that gambling is going on here."

It's all getting really old.  And it may well even start to cost them yet more votes and more seats.  Maybe, just maybe, it's time to start getting just a little constructive.  Get over it, folks; you lost.
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