Clinton V. Trump debate "Round 2", as billed by the media.

Watching debate last night, I asked myself "How did we get here?" And I think this an important question we shouldn't just forget about after Hillary Clinton wins. Because we're still "here". Donald Trump is a symptom, not a cause. A Hillary Clinton victory doesn't mean we're cured, only that we're not dead yet. We will still be a fractious, superficial, unsympathetic, and fear-ridden society of dubious temperament for democracy. For example, right now you can't get over my using the world 'temperament'. It's like that cell of meaning in the body of our culture has died, fallen to our disease. It's yet another casualty on the ever-growing lists of thoughts we can no longer have. Soon, I fear, a language of understanding this question--or any question--may be beyond our capacity, inevitably the world of our minds decaying quickly into the primordial confusion from which we (the constitutional 'We') have sprung.