Guilt

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I have a healthy attitude to guilt. I feel it when I know I've done something wrong, or may have done something wrong. I don't feel it as a default  because there's always someone out there to whom one's very existence is an offense. Nothing to be done about that.

So no, I absolutely refuse to accept this idea that the Left is somehow suddenly guilty for this bizarre swing to the right. If people are going to vote in a way that pleases Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Stephen Bannon, Mike Pence and all the other uglies, it's not my job,it's not anybody's job,  to replace the conscience they may lack and desperately coax them into voting for a sane person. First of all, that assumes that these voters inevitably were stupid or evil, and I'm trying not to do that; the furthest I will go is to say that whatever motives they may have had,  their vote has indeed strengthened stupidity and evil. Secondly, Clinton was by no means an optimum candidate, but if that's what people claim they needed to lead them away from voting for a shyster, their hearts belonged to the shyster anyway. He'd have won the election if  Jesus Christ, that well known middle eastern immigrant revolutionary hippy communist, stood against him.  The people responsible for a course of action are those who carry it out and those who condone it.

The blame and breast beating is ridiculous.  

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