Am I complicit in this? I think I am.
It was with shock and heartsickness that I woke up on Wednesday morning to find the world on fire. I had followed the campaign process with a kind of grim amusement for the last year or so (how could one not?), and therefore I thought I knew what was going on.
Clearly, I did not.
I had gone to bed the night before mildly curious about the outcome of the presidential election, but not at all perturbed. “Surely the majority of thinking, voting Americans share my viewpoint,” I thought. “They’ll never vote him in.”
So how was it that I was so completely sideswiped by the next morning’s announcement? How did I not see it coming? Continue reading