Oh, for D_g's sake ... sample these opinions from our local paper ...

[eppur_se_muova]

Republicans fleeing Trump are dooming the party and the country (reprinted in our local paper as "Republicans fleeing our nominee owe constituents an apology"

If Trump goes down, the GOP could still fight for Supreme Court

Judge Roy Moore would have made a great founding father (As you'd expect from the title, this one is particularly delusional)

Millions of unborn children could die under a Clinton-picked Supreme Court

So, by and large, things in the great red state of Alabama are about as bad as most liberals imagine. OTOH, two of the most disturbing opinions were imports --

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20161006_Commentary__Tear_down_this__wall__between_church_and_state.html Courtesy of "East Dixie" -- i.e. Philadelphia -- who knew ?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/10/12/what-its-like-to-be-a-college-professor-who-supports-donald-trump/?utm_term=.0e805d1021f7 More whining victimhood from one of those poor, oppressed, conservative welfare cases down Texas way. Oh, the horror !

Now, try to imagine the immense relief I'll feel on 9 November. I'll be fairly bursting with schadenfreude, but around here, it's best not to be public about it.

(BTW, all these opinions but one appeared in a single edition of the paper. I left out a couple of LTOE's that were at least equally deserving of derision.)

[world wide wally]

1. How did I guess it was Alabama?

[Midnight Writer]

6. Same thing in my hometown in Illinois. Just flat out plumb craziness.

[Fast Walker 52]

7. sad... however, these are last desperate gasps of dying political culture

I hope, anyway!

[smirkymonkey]

9. I really want to bang my head against a wall after reading some of that stuff.