2016 was the year of the Rise of Trump -- a man no one with a brain would want to be their President. But there it is. It was also the year of great migrations from war-torn or drug-ravaged lands: Sudan, Venezuela, Syria, Central Africa, Mexico, Columbia, Panama, et al. 2016 also brought us the brutality of ignorance, change for change's sake, and unrelenting stupidity and lies.
The political process broke down -- social media beat real media -- and mankind itself wavered in its humanity. Selfishness replaced compassion; hate replaced love; anger replace common sense.
Women lost significant ground in reproductive rights, and control over their own bodies, their wages, their choices in life. And "crypto-fascism" became a "real thing."
2017 will probably not be a better year.
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