Detailing Trump's Takedown of America

I'm not an alarmist.  At all.  It's not in my makeup.  If anything, my tendency is to be skeptical of doom and gloom predictions.  So this is almost entirely out of character:

Donald Trump is going to do irreparable, permanent damage to the United States.  And for those that refuse to see it coming, who should know better, this falls squarely on your shoulders.

If you voted for Trump simply because you hate Hillary, this is your fault.
If you voted for a 3rd party candidate, especially in a swing state, this is your fault.
If you stayed home because you disliked both candidates, this is your fault.
If you refused to vote for Clinton because she wasn't Bernie, this is your fault.

Because it doesn't matter who was the other candidate: Donald Trump is so unfit for office that he has zero business being President.  Zero.

If you think this turns out well, you're wrong.

What pains me the most is that the majority of my family and a significant number of friends & acquaintances, most of whom I believed to be smarter than this, voted for Trump.  Talking to them did no good, and it's not going to do any good now.  So I've quit talking.  But I have to do something because, while the details can be difficult to predict, the macro outcome is not.

It's like a 5-year old lying to your face, and they can't figure out how you know.  That kind of obvious.

It's being in the path of the Category 5 hurricane on all the models 3 days out.  You hold out small hope for a miraculous turn, but you start battening down the hatches and get out of town.  You know there will be damage and hope somehow you're spared the worst.  That kind of obvious.

So I'm going to begin detailing this horror story.  And I'm going to do it here so that it's not being shoved down your throat if you're on that list above, unless you wish to seek this out.  But it will be documented.  And some day, you're going to read this and either deny that this was foreseeable (because you won't be able to take pointing the finger back at yourself and your lack of vision/intellect/reasoning skills), get angry at me (like I did this somehow...another form of pretzel logic to salve your wounded ego), or wonder how you missed something this obvious.

The housing crisis was this kind of obvious.  Yet people still didn't see it coming and still try to claim that it was not the glaring train-in-the-tunnel headlight that it was.

So let's begin.  He's not even President yet, and there's already a laundry list.

Trump breaks diplomatic precedent by calling the President of Taiwan and unnecessarily angering China over...well, no reason.

Malcom Turnbull, one of our staunchest allies, is now signaling to his country and the world that Australia must consider alliance options other than America.  Any guesses where they'll turn?  Come on...it's not difficult.

Cabinet choices so far:
-Ben Carson, wholly unqualified for any governmental position, has been tapped to lead HUD.
-Linda McMahon, also wholly unqualified, to head the SBA.
-James Mattis, ineligible due to federal law, SecDef.  Trump pushing for an unprecedented waiver.
-By most accounts, Trump isn't taking daily security briefings.  Likely too much info to digest, since he has no understanding or interest in geopolitics.
-Oklahoma AG Scott Pruitt, who publicly hates the EPA & believes climate change is a Chinese-led  hoax, to lead the EPA.  You can't make this stuff up.
-Jeff Sessions, a barely disguised racist and sexist, for Attorney General.

I have to get back to work and also drill my Spanish.  More to follow.  Lots more.