In life, my happiness and success are not dictated by who, or by what party, wins or loses elected office. Once you distill your life and look at what is truly important to your well-being and psyche, politics, and the pandering, disingenuous political animals that make up the individual parties, mean absolutely nothing.

Personally, I’m not a “die-hard” anything. That being said, most of Libertarian thinking appeals to me, but a Libertarian has no hope of winning elected office. I tend to like people who shake up or rattle the status quo — Bernie Sanders appealed to me — not because of his policies (some were absolutely abysmal), but because, unlike Hillary Clinton, Bernie was “outside-the-box.”

Republicans? Ted Cruz (still) sounds like an out-of-work evangelist. I just don’t like him. I did work for the campaign of Jeb Bush (as a photographer) when he was Florida governor, but, like the Clintons, do we need another Bush? Dr. Ben Carson seemed like a nice guy, but I thought he may be a bit “touched.” My money was on Marco Rubio. I seriously thought he would be the Republican nominee — and then get trounced by Hillary Clinton in the general election.

And — Trump?

When he came down the escalator back in June 2015, my first reaction was to laugh…

And laugh and laugh and laugh…

The only thing I could think of was how good the GOP debates were going to be. No way in the freaking world would Donald J. Trump ever become President of the United States of—

When Trump won, I was floored. The status quo was rocked. Like Hillary, I’m still wondering, “What Happened?!”