Let’s imagine that the dental industry is plagued by a set of corrupt dentists who put their interests before yours. Now let’s imagine you have a tooth problem that requires attention: What do you do?

1) Do nothing and assume your teeth will fix themselves

2) Find the best available dentist and educate yourself as much as possible in ensuring you have the right course of treatment

3) Hire someone to fix your mouth who knows nothing about dentistry but you have heard talk loudly about teeth.

Well since it is 2016, let’s go for #3 and see what happens. Now imagine your best friend calls you up and says: “I think I need a dental procedure and I want you to do it.” They insist you do this and because you hate dentists too, you feel like you have to. 

What are you going to do? Grab your handy Dremel and a glue gun and dive in? This is your best friend…can’t do that. You know nothing about dentistry. You try and read the intro to dentistry course but it causes mostly confusion and you don’t even know what tools you need. Then you remember: You have a friend that used to be a dentist! Sure there was some sort of hearing and they were de-certified, but they will know something! You grab your friend and, for a modest fee, he agrees to tell you exactly what you need to do.

Welcome to the Trump presidency.

POTUS is a freakin’ hard job. It is far more than talking out your ass and denigrating people because of their gender or religion.  Actually running the machine is incredibly complex, and, for the most part your impact is through legislation not words with the exception of unilateral military action. Think about if you were asked the following:

1) Create a new comprehensive health care policy

2) Nominate a Supreme Court justice

3) Figure out how to react to a North Korean threat

What do you do? You reach for the call a friend button so quickly your head spins. And who do you call? Someone who knows something.

Folks you aren’t electing an outsider. You allow someone whose life has been defined by using money to get power to appoint a set of insiders that you have no voice in.

Donald Trump really has two policies:

1) Discriminate against Jews Muslims by trying to use religion as a way of choosing who can enter the country.

2) Build a wall, presumably to keep Americans in, because our net migration is more southward than northward.

That’s what’s important?

I get that some people think government doesn’t work for them. Throwing a amateur demagogue with no policies and no experience is not some kind of protest. It is criminal negligence by the electorate.  Protest by choosing the policies you want, not through shock value. The costs are way too high.