“If I can’t vote for Sanders, I’m voting for Trump. America will never change unless it hits rock bottom. Trump can bring us there.”
The thing that I think people who say things like this fail to grasp is that “rock bottom”, whatever it looks like, involves an at-present incomprehensible amount of actual human suffering. Actual human beings, actually starving, or made homeless, or dying. It seems stunningly irresponsible to actively work for such a thing.
A Pun Involving Travel 
I remain hopeful that Obama will convince Sen. Sanders of this at their meeting tomorrow. Sure, there will be some lunatic recidivists, but hopefully not too many.
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Michigan’s Governor Rick Snyder relied on the idea that Detroit Public Schools had hit rock bottom when he selected the Worst of the Worst for a new district, the EAA. Because there was, in his view, absolutely nowhere to go but up, it was a guaranteed win for him: The former DPS, now EAA, schools would improve.
Reality: They got worse.
Because “rock bottom” is a lot farther down than most people realize.
As miserable as some people think conditions are now for the working poor in the United States, they’re still better than in 1930s United States, which was better than in 1930s Germany.
We aren’t even close to rock bottom.
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That which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger… or is a debilitating injury that cripples you for life.
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http://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/06/08/clinton-and-sanders-and-the-end-of-the-road/
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