What I find most disturbing is the appeals to the alt right....the notion that just one person can "fix it" the moral decay of the elected leader sexually, in business practices et al....the very peculiar "Russian connection" the absence of tax info and business info relative to traditional presidential norms....the sexism, racism et al


AND most of all that this did not repel sufficient voters, that indeed many found this, apparently attractive and the "change", they had been waiting for and wanted...that fake news was so effective with them

Perhaps Joan is partly right and our Educational system has failed in terms of a values education.but I suspect it's a lot wider than that...the "dumbing down and coarsening down of our culture",  a generational coarsening that does not raise kids with compassionate values...that does not value democracy but rather oligarchy....that lacks critical thinking skills to understand what they have done and consciences capable of compassion and remorse