CSotD: I told you so
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Today's first "I told you so" is simply a matter of coincidence: Someone asked the other day what LinkedIn was for, and the response was almost uniform that it is a site for people who want to be spammed and pestered incessantly. And if Benita Epstein's day in the Six Chix rotation had been yesterday, the question would have been unnecessary.
Getting on LinkedIn is easy. Getting off is next to impossible: Requests to delete your profile and stop sending you messages go unheeded.
And I don't know what the value is in between, but I gather people who value this sort of thing value this sort of thing. It may be useful if you are looking for a lot of one-shot gigs, but the same could be said for Craigslist.
For my part, when I was out of work, networking was indeed what got me back on my feet, but it was through people I already knew and had worked with for a decade or so. I didn't need to connect with a collection of strangers, nor would it have done me any good, but your mileage may vary.
In any case, it took about two years to persuade them to leave me alone, and I have to think that a lot of LinkedIn's marketing is based on claiming a mass of people that includes a lot who are filtering their messages straight into the spam file.
Anyway, I told you so.
On a more significant level, Darrin Bell points out the obvious, which is that we've reduced the contest for leadership of a major nation into who people hate and distrust less.
I continue to be dismayed that the Democrats lined up behind someone with so many obvious negatives, but I've told you so so many times that it's becoming tiresome.
The challenge ahead is persuading people that four years of same-old-same-old is better than electing a crazy person, and the problem is that it's hard to get people revved up over same-old-same-old. "At Least She's Not Crazy" is a poor slogan, particularly when Trump does have people stirred up and excited, however delusional they may be.
I am mostly disheartened by recalling how obvious W's incapacity was and how, nevertheless, he was elected to two terms. The idea that people will be horrified at the prospects of a Trump presidency is not persuasive.
Right now, there is a sizeable contingent of progressive cartoonists rallying around Hillary with cartoons attacking Sanders, and, as I told you so yesterday, it seems more like middle school cliques than serious political analysis.
But what I see coming down the road is the potential for those cartoonists to start making demands on her in the months to come, which would be fine if GOP supporters were making demands on Trump, but I suspect they'll avoid touching on his many shortcomings and simply promote him as an undefined alternative to the same-old-same-old.
Which may end up looking like everyone is against Hillary, even those who support her but want her to straighten up.
Not healthy. Not at all healthy.
Meanwhile, in the race to the gutter
Jen Sorensen on Budweiser's bizarre and apparently unchallenged decision to co-opt the United States of America in order to sell beer.
The fact that they haven't been slapped down by horrified consumers tells us things about ourselves we didn't want to know, but, then, maybe that's a careless use of "we." As Sorensen notes, we've been selling out the country and the flag for at least a generation and I guess there was no particular reason to think the camel wouldn't be able to carry this additional straw.
And if people aren't going to object to Budweiser coopting their national identity, I don't know why they wouldn't support a candidate who does likewise.
I don't think "I told you so" is going to prove very comforting in the future.
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