I wouldn’t dare to pretend to be able to predict the outcome of the upcoming Presidential election save my belief that it will include the largest number of write-in votes in the nation’s history,  but I’d like to make one observation.

There is a well established belief since olden times that if you, as a ruler or ruling party, wish to keep the public happy, all you need to do is provide them with “Cake and Circus”( keep’em fed and entertained). If you do this, you will own them. Clearly, the primaries proved that people will readily vote for circus.

The myth that lemmings are so stupid they will follow each other over a cliff or into the ocean is just that. A myth. The voting public, on the other hand…….?