Americans voted for what they wanted. They had a choice of comforting lies, or inconvenient truths.

In their weakened and desperate state, they chose Door #1, Give Me Comforting Lies.

You can't really blame them.

Well, yes you can. It is their responsibility to become informed and responsible voters. And it's the responsibility of citizens in a democracy to exercise their informed vote.

It doesn't do any good to just say, "well, they ended up with Trump so Democracy works." No, a Trump White House demonstrates that democracy is broken and needs fixing badly. Trump is naturally exploiting the gaping flaws in the political and electoral system instead of trying to repair or at least mitigate their effects. Why would he try to fix a system that is broken in his favour?