Reg,

In ways, this has been one of the best election cycles and the worst....

Now, oddly, the best includes the revelation about the persona of Americans. This election has revealed just how deep "my team" politics is entrenched in the American mind. This is illustrated a while back by Trump's claim he could shoot someone in Times Square and people would still vote for him.

There have been some illuminating articles about how the mind works to those we follow and how forgiving it is and how it rationalizes things a person we follow does, to make us follow that person even more so.

This election has also shown us just how ignorant large portions of the American populace are and sadly, are becoming even more so. The bad thing is that American's are so entrenched in their thinking and position formulation that rather than examining what a person has done, said and claims to do in the future, the most important thing now days is what letter is next to a political candidates name (R, D, I or other).

Now, to my rational mind, I can't figure out how a truly moral and/or religious person could EVER vote for Trump - he has came to God only in the last hour. He has not led a moral life at all, but they flock to him, even with his words and deeds.

Nor, can I understand how people in the lower socioeconomic standings could, either. Or people of color or now, more so than ever, women.

Now, let's move on to Clinton -

Bill Clinton is right to criticize Obamacare. Frankly, I'm livid at how Clinton treated Sanders over it and how she lied about his position and how she claimed he wanted to get rid of it, when he stated he wanted to do something about the high deductibles, premiums and out of pockets.

I sit on our our labor/management health care committee and the ACA is strangling those that work. It is now becoming a necessity to consider a pension-like health care account to be possible to have a comfortable retirement. It is shocking that for working families, a "good" healthcare plan includes 6-7000k out of pockets and deductibles and out of pockets at a premium cost of over 1000k a month premium upon retirement.

As for Clinton's more Nixonian politics - I think that has been nothing more than a campaign strategy. I think her history belies the claim is she is trying to be more Reagan than Reagan. She and her people know that it has to be middle of the road area to get elected. Not only that, I think it is clear how deep white racism is burrowed, as is misogyny.

Through the election cycle, there have been some telling kernels of commentary out there that show these things. White males are irrationally scared shitless by HRC. Hell, I think to many of them, she is the second coming of Lorena Bobbitt and is going to sneak in and lop their testicles off in the middle of the night.

Now, to me, the biggest mystery of this cycle has been the wonderment of why Joe Biden did not run. That I can't figure out........