My friends turned Gothic in spite of their supposed education. Numbers didn't mean diddly, let alone the fact that their academic research efforts were anchored on numbers--that is, statistics. And so, no matter what one told them their candidate was a non-starter and it was better to use someone more likely to put up a credible challenge to the Ogre of Uganda, they circled the wagon of emotional stupidity.
Fast forward to the US elections of 2012 and the difference would be the same with the pitiful Karl Rove , the Republican King-Maker. Rove of the Republican-leaning Fox News became apoplectic when the station projected Obama as the winner of Ohio state, hence the presidential race.The 300-million dollars seat of power could not let go, not unlike my "educated" Uganda buddies. All some of us would do was chuckle and say: look, daddy, my little contribution, leveraged with others trounced your more than a quarter-billion juggernaut--dig?. Appealing to the "godly" evangelicals didn't help you either.Harping against gun control did not do the trick. The gays won in four states, and that says a lot. No-new-taxes sounded hollow as a credible fiscal and economic policy.
In the end, liberalism triumphed: we are in this together and let us be supportive of one another when we are here--after all, we are not going to get out of here alive!
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