"I told you so!!!!!" is my current rant.

[yliza]

4. I know how you feel

I’ve known this was coming since Sarah Palin and the rise of the Tea Party. I didn’t know what it would look like, but I lived in Jim DeMint’s South Carolina, and seeing all the McCain-Palin signs was a bellwether. I couldn’t believe people could support someone so legitimately *stupid* as VP, a heartbeat from the presidency, but I knew why they did. Didn’t have the fat orange dementia-addled Dunning-Kruger poster boy on my bingo card back then, though, so I thought it’d look different. I was called a conspiracy theorist, hyperbolic, unpatriotic, and so on. Nobody wants to believe that It Can Happen Here, until it does.