Nadirism

The process and outcome of the 2000 presidential election are still instructive. The Democrats showed up in Florida wanting to see the system honored and a fair outcome.

Republicans showed up wanting to win. Screw the process. Win they did and the resulting eight years of incompetence may eventually be seen as the beginning of our end.

Who knows, but I see it as the dawn of a new age of elevating our worst aspects into ideals. It makes no sense but there you are, a case in point: making sense no longer matters.