SIX days after the results of the United States' election and about half of the country are still asking ourselves "What in the hell happened?"  The Democratic Party is promising us an autopsy of this mess of an election, but I don't think that they'll ever get the real answer as to "WHY" Donald Trump was elected and Kamala Harris was not.  

There are still hundreds or thousands of people out there lamenting the fact that the United States just isn't ready to have a woman for POTUS yet.  You know, I really don't think that's the truth.  While there are some folks out there that still don't want a woman to run the country, I don't believe that the bulk of us still feel that way.  We've had plenty of examples of women running a country very successfully, all the way back to Margaret Thatcher, so I really don't think that's the issue at all.

This time, I really think that Donald Trump won strictly on the basis of his smoke and mirrors act.  He has continued his "Tell them lies so many times that they question their own memories" campaign of deception to the point of perfection during this campaign, making sure that people believe that the cost of groceries is insanely high because of "Inflation"...and it's not due to inflation at all.  It's due to corporate price gouging.  Inflation in the USA is actually down to 2.5%, which is actually a very normal inflation rate.  What has happened is that our food corporations have realized that we are willing to pay the prices for food that were charged during the pandemic and that they can continue to get away with it.  I mean really....think back in your lifetime.  When was the last time you saw the price of ANYTHING other than gasoline go down?  The prices of bread, milk, eggs, and general household staples?  When those prices rise, they stay there.  We got lucky with the price of eggs coming back down after the bird flu epidemic, but they still have their prices raised too high.  That's greed though...not supply and demand, or anything else.  Rather than realize what is actually going on, which Kamala Harris outlined for the people of the US in her campaign though, they found it much easier to throw their trust behind the lies of Trump, who has been gaslighting them by calling this inflation caused by the Biden Administration for almost two full years now.  Harris had only 100 days to convince the public otherwise, and with their TV's set to Fox News Entertainment network, they were never going to get the truth anyway.

There was a percentage that fell for the "I don't support that woke stuff at all" line and actually believed Trumps claims that kids were leaving for middle school as little boys and coming home in the evenings after school as little girls (and vice versa).  There is just SO much fear of Transsexualism out there as to be embarrassing.  If a TS person is being mistreated, beaten, or killed, they won't stop to help them.  If there is a TS story on the news that's positive, they won't allow little Bobby or Susie to watch because it might be contagious.  Why won't they ever accept the fact that TS effects no one other than the person who is going through the issue?  I realize that there are issues regarding sports and how they think that people born as men shouldn't be playing women's sports, so there needs to be a LOT more education from US on why that sort of thing should be allowed.  How do hormones effect and weaken the male body?  Even more difficult, how do we get them to sit still long enough to listen to these explanations?

I swear.  I'm going nuts.  These people are really driving me nuts.  Their brains are NOT engaged.