text: THANK YOU GERALD CAPLAN for articulating so well what really happened in this election. The ignorance represented in the American electorate and in many of the comments here is part of what's created our now disastrous reality. One in which a democratically chosen woman - who would have been an imperfect but truly great president - is beaten by an electoral system originally created to appease white slave-owners in the southern United States. Now effectively appeasing fearful white nationalists and internalized hatred.