Democracy is great when your side wins. Otherwise, we use Mencken's worn quote to talk about the stupidity of the voters on the other side. Today's word of the day: trite.

The UK's EU referendum ballot was the simplest I've ever seen, but apparently, many smart, aware, vibrant, connected, young people could not figure it out. I argue that if, even with six month's warning, they could not figure out how to put an "X" in the empty square next to the statement that best represents their sentiments and then drop it into a box, they deserved to lose. It's so primally logical. Of course, that's not how many see it. They believe it was wrong to let all those old, uneducated, racist, xenophobic, English, white people anywhere near ballot boxes because it's "not their future."

I thought our Republicans were the English-speaking world's sore loser cry-baby royalty, but they have company now.

Labels: moderation: toxicity, insult