Yes they were both bad, but not even close to equal. We've all been duped, but not to the same extent. If I cut someone off in traffic, and he crashes both our cars to spite me, we didn't both just have road rage and should forget about our differences.

If we don't actually attempt to learn WHY it is that each candidate was bad, including the exact reasons, including how they were both bad in very different ways, then our politics will not heal.

I thought we learned after Jimmy Carter that an outsider to the presidency was a bad idea. I thought after bush we learned that intelligence was important to shield a president from bad advice. I thought we learned after Nixon the dangers of thinking a crooked president could work "for you".

We somehow managed to get the worst of everything- a man who repeatedly lies, who doesn't understand the issues, who needs his briefings condensed to under a page of bullets, who repeatedly has cozied up to and complimented autocrats, and who promised the American people everything while being utterly incapable and unwilling to take the steps necessary to even begin to fullfill their expectations.

And do you know why? Because the people fucked up. The People are responsible for the government, and until the People become more educated, less temperamental, more understanding, less apathetic, less hateful, and more willing to question their own views and the views of their "side", the government will never change.

Trump voters are responsible for everything he does. If we don't get mad at Trump voters to some extent, they won't figure out just how badly they fucked up. I'm not gonna treat adults with kid gloves.