Ken Burns made a commencement speech at Stanford, very critical of Trump.
I've always enjoyed his documentaries, but found his comments to be a bit of farce, given the alternative candidate.
While I was not a Trump supporter, when he says, "a person who easily lies, creating an environment where the truth doesn’t seem to matter; who has never demonstrated any interest in anyone or anything but himself and his own enrichment; who insults veterans," - I almost started laughing as Trump is an amateur liar while Hillary is a professional. None of Trump's lies have ever result in the death of Americans or the compromise of classified information. (btw, when has Trump ever insulted veterans?)
Burns goes on to say, "powerless people who have flocked to his campaign in the mistaken belief that – as often happens on TV – a wand can be waved and every complicated problem can be solved with the simplest of solutions. They can’t." That's the Obama playbook. Where was Burns when mindless "Hope and Change" was being spouted?
The lack of details won Obama many votes, all thanks to the anti-intellectualism that Burns decries. The "sophisticated media culture that requires you – no, desperately needs you – to live in an all-consuming disposable present, wearing the right blue jeans, driving the right car, carrying the right handbag, eating at all the right places, blissfully unaware of the historical tides that have brought us to this moment, blissfully uninterested in where those tides might take us." But who controls that media?
Despite what we wish the election to be, there will only be one of two people as our next President. It will be Trump or Hillary. Make no mistake about it. Once again, we are left with the better of two evils. (No, Gary Johnson doesn't have a chance.)
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