Why do people vote for Trump?

What is the Spanish word for straitjacket, Despite it?

The former president* is a dying civilization in his own right. A completely independent reality going supernova right before our eyes. If you can't see that and choose to live in this dying imaginary universe, you deserve exactly what you get in return. When the American people inexplicably re-elected the worst president ever in 2004, my late friend Clif Garboden put it at risk The Boston Phoenix the morning after the election.

Many of us weak Easterners want to know: What the hell is wrong with you?! You voted against your self-interest at every turn (you idiots in South Dakota deserve special recognition for voting out one of the most powerful Democrats in the Senate) and re-elected an ignorant cowboy who can't be trusted to remember you Ordering lunch, let alone running a country. What in God's name…?! Wait, it was in the name of God, right? Made weak and ignorant by a spoon-fed climate of fear, you flabby inbred flatlanders have sought refuge in the traditional twin towers of mindlessness – jingoistic patriotism and fundamentalist religion.

Impolite? Bet? Realistic? Damn clear. And if things go wrong this year, the country will deserve every drop of Clif's scorn and then some.

A few days ago an interesting email landed in my inbox. It was a piece of tablet titled Hunter S. Thompson was a strange visionary before drugs and politics ate his brain. Author Jeff Weiss brings the spirit of the late Dr. Thompson skillfully sums up the 1972 presidential election, which remains the finest passage in the history of modern American political journalism:

This could be the year we finally face ourselves; Finally sit back and say it – that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen who have the money to buy weapons and have no qualms about killing anyone else in the world who tries , to make us uncomfortable.

The tragedy is that George McGovern, for all his faults and all his inaccurate talk of “new politics” and “honesty in government,” is one of the few men who has run for president of the United States this century Really understand what a fantastic monument to humanity's best instincts this country could have been if we had kept it out of the hands of greedy little crooks like Richard Nixon? McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost careless compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, intentionally, for political reasons and as a perfect expression of everything he stands for.

Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to sink to become president in this country?

This question, it should not be pointed out, is still open.

But like I said, I woke up this morning and had nothing left to say.