And ick and yuck for the rest of the day's news as well. You'd think we'd gotten used to things like these already and had simply given up all hope for America long time ago, but still, my puzzlement continues. Democracy is a bloody stupid system, if your majority is, uhm, bloody stupid, like it usually is, of course.

Still, nice to have had been right about the winner, right? No, not really. We may be cynical pessimists, but I would have been quite pleased to be wrong.

If anyone is agonising on how this actually could have happened, how could anyone vote for him and so on... let's finish with a lovely and enlightening quote, shall we?

"According to a Gallup poll ... in February 2001, no less than 45 percent of responding U.S. adults agreed that 'God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.' ... Only 12 percent believed that humans evolved from other life-forms without any involvement of a god."

National Geographic Nov 2004

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