We have a robust form of government and we have had worse choices in the past

From Is the press pushing Hillary's argument that Trump is 'dangerous'? by Howard Kurtz. Well, yes, of course. Democrats with bylines (or JournoLists) gave the DNC 40% more coverage than the RNC and are pushing the primary Democratic themes as hard as they can. Oddly, Trump, with his tendency towards unfettered communication, seems to be doing everything he can to help them.

I do not see anyone commenting on the fact that Trump gives press conferences every time you turn around which offers unfettered opportunity to the opposition press to play gotcha journalism and attack dog journalism on anything that deviates from the Democratic party campaign themes. Seems like that there should be some compensating mechanism for the fact that Hillary Clinton hasn't done a press conference in some 200 days.

Given that the FBI Director Comey has recently confirmed that virtually everything she said in her last press conference was an explicit and objective lie, you can see why the campaign would want to avoid repeating the process. Astonishingly, candidate Clinton doubled down on her lies by claiming in an interview yesterday that:

Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people,

Truly, truly astonishing that a major party could have produced this venal, corrupt, destructive, charlatan as their chosen candidate. An astonishment rivaled only by the outrageousness of the other main party's candidate.

This is hardly a left/right issue, a Democratic/Republican issue, insider/outsider issue. We have a wonderful American system of government that has, this election cycle, coughed up two of the more astonishingly bad hairball candidates in the same cycle in a long time.

From Kurtz's article:

Trump’s theme is that Hillary is weak, beholden to special interests and, well, crooked. Clinton’s theme is that The Donald is crude, reckless, inexperienced and ignorant.

The challenge to the electorate is that both Trump and Clinton are reasonably accurate in their charges against their opponent.

For the time being I am inclined against proven criminality, incompetence, crony capitalism, and corruptness and towards the candidate who may simply be naively reckless. But that that should be the choice is a grave shame.

Ah well, we have endured worse. Thank goodness for a divided and republican form of government with all its checks and balances.