That awful moment when you realize George Carlin was right

"Maybe, maybe it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here. Like the public."  - George Carlin

  We can all point out how the political system is corrupt and rigged. Without a doubt the news media is complicit in this travesty.

But if this election season has proven anything, it's that the biggest reason that our political system is a joke is because the American public is full of "selfish, ignorant people", as George Carlin so aptly put it.

  No one would be less surprised by the political success of the narcissistic, snake-oil-salesman Donald Trump than Mr. Carlin.

His speeches are over-the-top, grab-your-crotch, phony machismo bluster that is one step below 8th grade bully taunting, and just barely above animal grunts.

  You would be hard pressed to find a candidate more unqualified to hold the office of the President of the United States than Trump.  If you searched all the high-security prisons, crack houses, and dive bars in the country you might still average a better quality of human being than Donald Trump.   That's because people in all of those places might still have some grasp of reality, while the average Republican voter most certainly doesn't.

How could they? How can anyone take one look at him and say, "I'd trust him with my wallet"?   Now imagine trusting him with a huge nuclear arsenal.

 Yet tens of millions of people intend to do just that. What does that say about a huge swath of Americana?

  Granted, the Republican voter didn't have much to chose from to begin with, but they still managed to pick one of the worst candidates. So don't bother blaming the system Republican voters. This one is on you.

  The Democrats have failed in an entirely different way. They had a candidate that said, "Our health care system is broken. Our higher education system is broken. Our financial system is broken. I have an idea: Let's fix these systems by doing what the entire rest of the industrialized world already does successfully."    Bernie Sanders called this idea a "revolution" when it rightly should have been called basic, f*cking common sense.

  But noooooo! The Democratic Party called Basic Common Sense "radical" and "unrealistic". We should flip logic on its head and continue doing what doesn't work, because continuing to do what doesn't work and expecting better results is no longer called insanity. It's now called "pragmatic".

   In an alternate universe this would be called "idiotic". But Democratic voters took a look at the stupid coming from Republican voters and decided, "Gimme some of that."

  In an election year where the public overwhelmingly believes the country is on the wrong path, and the government is corrupt, Democrats said, "Let's nominate a candidate that proudly declares her intentions to defend that broken status quo, while also being investigated by the FBI for ‘wrongdoing’. No one will want a guy that proposes basic common sense ideas."

  So who's really more stupid?

  The answer is: It doesn't matter.