"institutions that we relied upon to safeguard our personal freedoms and security were revealed to be, in fact, our worst enemies."

In JJ Sefton's Morning Report at the Ace of Spades blog, he gives us the usual large assortment of links to click on and adds this comment:

...this is truly a sad day for the nation, but the real tragedy is how low people have sunk because of their raging hatred of not just one man but of well over half of the nation for rejecting them and their dream; because that dream is our nightmare. Then again, much of what we mourn was mortally wounded with the New Deal, put in a coma by the Great Society and smothered with a My Pillow by Hope and Change, so what really is there to mourn? Add to that sad reality the revelations of how institutions that we relied upon to safeguard our personal freedoms and security were revealed to be, in fact, our worst enemies. The masks have fallen, the truth is there for those who have eyes to see and the courage to face it head on.

All of this garbage we have to endure is just part of a sea change that we are in the midst of. Trump's election - our election - touched it all off. I want to stick around and see how it turns out.