What's potentially worse than a Trump presidency (if such a thing is possible) is what happens to the Supreme Court. With one vacancy and three justices nearing/passed 80, Trump could possibly appoint four (!) seats in his first (and hopefully only) term. 'The Daily Beast' just ran an article on what that could…

Again though, the loss of manufacturing jobs and a stagnate economy (which, to be fair, has improved steadily in the last 8 years) is largely how Donald Trump won the election. These are two issues which the democrats should own, for actual liberal policies are how a nation increase jobs and wages (see: post-war…

I partially agree with you. Yes, not every candidate is going to be perfect. This notion of an ideal, pure leader is fiction. One must think about the larger picture and who stands to lose the most before exercising a needless protest vote or not voting at all.

After yesterday, I'm dubious of anything that can safely be considered a "lock."

I can't wait for the crossover, Arriv-Elle

"Difficult, controversial, and sometimes just plain bad movies get booed at Cannes all the time"

I consider everything from the European Enlightenment onwards to demonstrate a fairly consistent improvement in the lives of minorities and women from the centuries that came before it. So, yes, obviously there have been periods of stagnation and regression regarding the treatment of minorities (ex: the transition…

I respectfully disagree, my friend. Any student of history will tell you that the world has significantly progressed morally and socially since the dawn of civilization. While this progress has not always been as hasty as you and I may like it to be (there will always be reactionaries to slow any momentum), look at…

If I can endure 59 years of Louis XV, America can get through 4 years of this orange monster.

The best one can do now is accept the reality of the situation. We may not have received the outcome that we would have wanted, but that's life, and we ultimately have little control over external events (for more on this, I would suggest reading up on Stoic philosophy or Viktor Frankl). Yes, it's unfortunate, even…

So is anyone else in a state of daze, shock, confusion, bewilderment, horror, and disgust that we just elected the least qualified, most delusional, openly bigoted, demagogic, predatory candidate in modern election history to run the free world? This is such a major failure on so many people's parts: starting with…

I'd prefer him to quietly fall into obscurity - losing the limelight is his biggest fear (according to his biographer), so seeing him become absolutely irrelevant would be sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

Let's be honest, like any A.V. Club commentator is in a position to turn down a blow-job.

If by "British" you mean born and raised in blue-collar Michigan, then yes.

I can't wait for the same people who claimed that America wasn't a racist country before Obama took office to then claim that America wasn't sexist before Hillary's era.

Allow me to offer a rebuttal:
1.) All that is frankly irrelevant. In a democracy, the aim ought to be to enable as many people to participate in the system as possible. Making November 8th a federal holiday would do this.

Not entirely. I am quite astounded by the level of complacency exhibited by the American public - why don't they rise up (peacefully) against the obvious corruption and rigging of the system? Why attach oneself to the status quo when it is quite clearly to your disadvantage if you're a middle/lower class individual?

American 'exceptionalism' was a concept devised and promoted by jingoists to grow support for wars, which in turn would serve the financial interests of the elites (see: Cheney, the Iraq War, and Halliburton).

If there's one thing this election has taught (or, rather, re-enforced), it's to always avoid political rallies/crowds/mobs.

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill the other day: "If you’re too sorry or lazy to get up off of your rear and to go register to vote, or to register electronically, and then to go vote, then you don’t deserve that privilege." No, asshole - Voting is not a privilege, it's a right.