Discussing the log run irrelevant

Everything in the long run is irrelevant.  If you substituted bacteria in a petrie dish for us, we'd pay little attention, but in the grand scheme of things, at least using AuT, it means very little.
That being said, and since no one is forcing you to look at this, I want to talk a bit about politics.
I don't know what is going to happen, although there is a method for seeing into the future with AuT in a general sense that is not very complicated.
To say that the US population as a group are fools would be to grossly over-rate the lack of group intellect.  I've written two books about how we gave away our wealth and our technology to our biggest potential rival and while apparent short term wealth has resulted, in the short run, the long run is far from certain, well death is pretty certain, but the exact manner remains the great option of mankind.
So why raise this intellectual vacuum issue when the president elect throws it like a pie into our faces every day?  It's because he is doing what he should do, by the way.  By this I don't mean his policies are right.  But he's doing something.  When Eisenhower arrived in England in WWII he knew that something had to be done and that is what he requested, "Do something," take the chance it won't be right but don't just sit there waiting to be punched.  That doesn't mean it's right, but its what a president should do (compare President Adams to President Jefferson.  But that doesn't have much to do with stupidity.
What has to do with stupidity is putting out these obvious white herrings (voter fraud, the number of people at the inauguration) and the press (tv press) spending so much time on these that the important issues, such as the denigration of free speech and science, are ignored.  I think this was the election strategy.  So little time was spent on the inability of the president to tell the truth and the need to look at his tax returns because there was a three ring circus.  Don't get me wrong, I think it's brilliant.  It's like the "bit" you see on cartoons where a character is distracted by a riddle while the bank is robbed but in real life.
This is not Hitler, far from it.  More of Tammany Hall.  And no one should really be whining. Even the moron's had to see what was coming.  I suspect before this the Trump empire was probably not that healthy, but today everyone is joining the Mora Lao (at double rates) and everyone is booking conventions at Trump Properties and everyone is looking to do a deal that will get them politically connected.  Illegal?  I don't know, but only the attorneys will every look at it.  Everyone else is going to be distracted by the sideshows and half naked clowns in this circus.
For now it's fun. When they shut down the press and start building concentration camps then things will get serious, but both sides are putting on a show that no one could write.  Green peace putting up the "Resist" banner "over" the white house was classic.  The only thing they did wrong was not to prepare for a long siege.  They turned something that could have been a whole section in this farce into a paragraph.  Still classic, but underdone.  Ahhh don't you miss the 60's?
Of course, the use of issues is only part of it for the Trump team too. Kelly Ann Conway in a toy soldier outfit is a taste of what's to come from Trump and will certainly get more press than the banner.  If they'd surrounded the banner with some sort of sexual counter-strike, but now, the left unfortunately (from an entertainment standpoint) is too politically correct and in this arena only too classy to stoop that low and perhaps, judging from the coverage, too inept at this stage of the comic opera that is the world today to do that.
Given time there will be almost naked goose stepping models, I'm almost sure of it and the coverage will not be on the swastika's they are wearing, but the one ugly fat girl who is driven to tears in the audience or the reality tv show method in which they were cast for the rolls.
It will be some time before the press tries to bore the public when they get to the real issues, but at some point in time, we may see them  Perhaps it will be when they are trying to figure out who is going to harvest the vegetables in a few months or when we're starving or in Hoovervilles if the protectionist/self serving policies outweigh the pubic good being done.