Al come on.
For a year or more you've dismissed any criticism of Clinton with all the zeal of a Trumper. You and yours *censored*ed up. Own it already. You had liberals and moderates telling you the entire time that, no matter how qualified she was, she was a godawful candidate. And you and yours ignored it. You went along with it because you lived in your bubble and forgot that other people's votes count just as much as yours.
And now we're all going to suffer for it.
A ham sandwich could have beaten Trump. And you chose Hillary *censored*ing Clinton. Thanks, bro.
I have defended her from an onslaught of attacks on her character and record, but have also pointed out that she was a far from perfect candidate. It was as if any hint of a stain on her disqualified her, and now we have Ron Lambert coming back to remind us that she has had over 90 people killed over her career. Ron is an outlier in many ways, but it's that kind of vilification coupled with relentless probes and investigations that have not once turned up criminal wrongdoing that really pisses me off.
I don't agree that she was a godawful candidate, but I do agree that she was made to seem that way. I honestly think she was highly qualified, highly motivated and has a strong sense of purpose that would have been good for the country. Instead we have Trump, for whom nobody can stand up for his character or record.
I also said several times that I agreed with most of Bernie's positions and if he were the Dem candidate would have voted for him with some enthusiasm. But I also said that IMO if he was elected he would have gotten virtually nothing done by insisting on his principled stands. Politics is about practicality, so Clinton was a better fit for the office.
You are right that I didn't see the outcome coming, and I'm still puzzling how it could have happened without anyone with credible standing predicting it. That's going to take a while to figure out.
In the meantime we have the worst of all possible worlds and will have to live in it. I don't worry for myself, as I'm semi-retired and not dependent on the government except for SS and Medicare. Instead, I'll get involved in political action again after many years on the sidelines because of my daughters and granddaughters. They'll suffer from the election outcome for far more years than I will. If I owe anyone an apology for helping make this mess, it's them rather than you.