One Last Look at Election 2016

The worst election in history with the two least liked candidates in history is finally over and, boy did the disappointment live down to the hype:

• An enthusiasm gap between the two parties
• Biden pretty much being discouraged to run by the big money donors unless he wanted to be the sixth reigning vice president to not make it out of his own party's primary
• Trump and Clinton spending the bulk of the campaign explaining why the other candidate was worse rather than explaining why he/she was worthy of being elected
• Putrid debates that discussed very little of substance
• Polls that pointed out that the winner would have no honeymoon and that he/she would enter the White House with the lowest approval rating ever
• The DNC rigged the primary and may have turned off an entire generation to either the party or to electoral politics altogether. The party and its cohorts in the media refuse to learn from its mistakes. There's a reason why people refer to the Democratic Party as the graveyard of movements
• Speaking of which, the Hillbots have yelled "why now" regarding people who didn't vote. The first response that comes to mind is that enough people who sat out finally gave the pundit class's declaration of 2016 being "the most important election of our lifetime" the boy who cried wolf treatment (I had heard the same thing every election cycle going back to the 2000 election even though last year was finally the realigning election). Second, is the constant Russia bantering once the Democratic establishment was caught by Wikileaks. Nobody wanted to discuss the fact that Sanders supporters were vindicated. The third thing is that Hillary should not be absolved because she chose the big tent strategy, only for it to blow up in her face
• While the populist uprisings in both parties took center stage, very few people paid attention to the fact that 2016 was the year that the political center collapsed. Normally, this would be a horrible thing, but because of what the post-Reagan Era centrist consensus represented, this vision had to be vastly discredited by the voters. A quarter century of neoliberal austerity at home and neoconservative policies of endless wars something that turned the public off, not to mention the massive loss of jobs and the near collapse of organized labor
• The final tally was supposed to be 306-232 but was 304-227 due to seven faithless electors 
• Given that there were four other candidates--Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, Evan McMullin, and Darrell Castle--who were on the ballot in enough states to win 270 electoral votes, the fact that not one of them received an electoral vote showed a lack of courage of the seven faithless electors to really make a statement
• If we aren't going to get rid of the Commission on Presidential Debates, then, the minimum requirement should mandate all candidates to be in enough states that equal 270 electoral votes. Three six-way presidential debates (and one for the VP debate) would have been far more entertaining than what we ended up with
• Donald Trump is the Ultimate Sailer Strategy candidate