2016 Postmortem

It seems in campaigns past that the attacks were on the candidates themselves. There was some of that in 2012, but I saw a lot of 'Hillary supporters', 'Bernie supporters', 'Trump supporters' insults.

It's probably always been there, I suppose, but since we can all literally interact with family and friends instantaneously, through Facebook and other social media. We don't talk WITH each other, we talk AT each other. At least that's what I see in my Facebook circles.

A lot of the people who don't vote, probably don't want to be type cast. So, they are just observers of the process. Mike Rowe had an article about encouraging people to vote. His suggestion was basically, if folks don't know squat about politics, maybe it's not a good idea to encourage them to vote.

Honestly, if people don't know the differences between the candidates, maybe it's better if they don't vote. Especially if they're voting based on what they've seen on reality TV.