Hello, Everyone, This is going to be somewhat strange, but, basically, I am attempting to put together a document which will explore and explain the 2016 election. Then, it will attempt as well to suggest ways out of the mess. What happened, in other words, and where do we go from here? I say it will be strange, and that’s for several reasons—first, because it will not be entirely by me. I am looking to you to provide comments, thoughts, expansions, critiques, and even (perhaps) whole sections of the work. I am hoping to make it available to the world on the web under a creative commons mark. I suppose, then, it will be less a manuscript than a conversation. Second, it will be somewhat rambling and even, yes, incoherent. But that’s the nature of discourse and conversation. It is always a work in progress, and sometimes lacks focus even when it is making the most progress. Further, it will be broken up into three sub-sections, or perhaps the word I’m looking for is “sub-conversations.”