Idiocracy?

One word surfaces repeatedly, across all issues and mediums: vigilance. Every policy move and appointment by the President-elect will be scrubbed within an inch of it's life...I'm exhausted at the prospect of four years of the neccessity of this...but here we are.

If the divisive, outrageous tenor of his campaign was not truly his character, then the good voters just elected a fraud. I kinda believe "if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck..." and you know the rest. To me, 'idiocracy' is the wholesale unwillingness of people to exercise any intellectual discipline...to allow that "if A, then B which leads to C" is not a valid statement, even when supported by facts...to pick and choose which Constitutional Amendments you'll uphold...to deny that words matter in some instances, but howl at the affrontery of them in others...to have passionate opinions devoid of any social nuance or historical context... idiocracy...

So far, I'm not comforted by any transition team moves: Steve Bannon as co-Chief of Staff- he may be brilliant, but everything I know about personal branding and his role in crafting Breitbart News as an alt-right platform has me beyond uneasy.
His comparing Trump's oratory to William Jennings Bryan, known as the "Silver Tongued Devil" is laughable (although made in the same interview lauding the dark powers of Darth Vadar and satan over an unsuspecting public gave me pause).
Trump is not very intelligent and prone to be both malleable and a loose cannon...god help us...and then trying to install an oil and gas industry advocate to head up the EPA; not hard to figure out where we're going with climate change...

But back to the idiocracy we've become: not hearing much rumbling about Trump's business conflicts of interest with his new status. His empire is going in a blind-trust run by his children (thus negating the 'blind' portion of the term). His son in law getting a government role (didn't Congress do something about that after JFK put Bobby in as AG?) There are yuge loans to foreign banks, his Washington hotel lease will be negotiated annually with a government agency...and that's just what we know so far. But, his good supporters are more concerned with the plea for inclusion made from the cast of "Hamilton" to Pence..without a shred of hypocrisy they are outraged by what they view as disrespect. Well, the new normal is going to cut both ways, folks - buckle up.