On Facebook, I see different people excusing themselves from responsibility of what happened.
“Oh, I voted for a third party in a swing state, but it’s the fault of people who didn’t vote at all.”
There’s more than enough blame to go around here, people.
It is the fault of those who voted for Trump because they loved him.
It is the fault of those who voted for Trump even though they could see him for what he was.
It is the fault of those who said, “he says what we’re all thinking.”
It is the fault of those who said, “Oh, he doesn’t mean x; he’s just saying that for votes.”
It is the fault of Trump, who is a psychopath, in the full clinical definition of the word.
It is the fault of anyone who ever let that psychopath think he wasn’t one.
It is the fault of those who voted for third party candidates, esp. in swing states.
It is the fault of eligible voters who didn’t vote, esp. in swing states.
It is the fault of the media who gave Trump so much free air time.
It is the fault of the media who harped on the emails.
It is the fault of the media who didn’t equally harp on all of Trump’s scandals.
It is the fault of voters who listened to a single kind of media without doing any fact checking.
It is the fault of conspiracy theorists who kept spreading lies about Clinton.
It is the fault of those who spread lies about America–that crime is up, that the economy is completely down, that Sharia law governs whole cities here, etc.
It is the fault of foreign interests, esp. Russia and Wikileaks, who tried to take down one of the parties. And succeeded.
It is the fault of the voters who let them.
It is the fault of the electoral college system (and the primary system).
It is the fault of Clinton for not being perfect, for making mistakes, and not dealing with those mistakes well.
It is the fault of those who kept insisting that Clinton and Trump were equally bad, were equally dangerous for America.
It is the fault racists.
It is the fault of sexists.
It is the fault of religious bigots.
It is the fault of nationalists.
It is the fault of the homophobic.
It is the fault of the selfish.
It is the fault of the anti-science people.
It is the fault of very religious people who are so against “sharia” law, but who intend to make our laws based on their faith.
It is the fault of those who are uninformed.
It is the fault of those who don’t understand how economics work.
It is the fault of all those who don’t understand their own privilege.
It is the fault of those who don’t understand history–who don’t know that it was the extremely high tax burden on the rich that made the 1950s so awesome for (heterosexual white male) middle class people.
It is the fault of those who don’t see parallels between what is happening now and what happened in Germany, who spent the last eight years saying Obama was Hitler only to go on to elect their own demagogue, who actually is one.
It is the fault of the Republican states who have changed voter rules (and the Supreme Court who let them), making it harder to vote in all kinds of ways.
It is the fault of the first Americans, who, despite George Washington’s advice, established a two party system.
It is the fault of my family members who are continually taken in by that party to vote against their self interest.
It is the fault of other of my family members who only vote in their own self interests, and believe that everyone else on this planet, unless they’re family, should be completely on their own.
There.
It’s basically everyone’s fault.
Can we please FIX IT NOW?
