I think it&#x27;s time to confront the reality that we have a serious asshole epidemic in America. It has gone unchecked for a few centuries and it has reached a fever pitch of state sanctioned torture and Donald Trump supporters.<p>Much like idiots, assholes cannot possibly realize that they are being assholes. It&#x27;s one of the symptoms. They&#x27;re actually completely confident that what they&#x27;re doing makes total sense. It&#x27;s a touch-and-go sorta thing; how do you openly confront assholery without becoming a huge asshole? I call this the Snowden dilemma. It&#x27;s a real problem.<p>We are well past the point of occasionally waking up to find feces on the kitchen table. The majority of this country is subsisting entirely on a diet of pure shit. I don&#x27;t want to seem elitist - I regard myself as a world class dummy - but I do know what shit tastes like and I understand that eating it is bad for you. I don&#x27;t have any answers but I think we&#x27;re in a lot of trouble here.<p>&quot;Democracy always seems bent upon killing the thing it theoretically loves. [...] It not only wars upon the thing itself; it even wars upon mere academic advocacy of it. I offer the spectacle of Americans jailed for reading the Bill of Rights as perhaps the most gaudily humorous ever witnessed in the modern world.&quot; --H.L. Mencken