Goodbye to you--and you.

• Author: Singleton, Marilyn M.
• Position: STATE OF THE NATION

Farewell to having to endure "Beyonce and F-word, N-word Jay Z" as regular guests "at the White House of a hyperbolic storytelling president like Barack 'if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor' Obama" to a "Democratic presidential candidate who, as Secretary of State, Illegally put state secrets on her private email server, all the while soliciting 'pay-to-play' checks for her 'charitable' foundation." THE GOAL of the sometimes-unruly protests over the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the U.S. is unclear. Is it to make Pres.-elect Trump preemptively resign? Is it to ensure that he never takes office--by any means necessary? Is it to exercise the protesters' self-defined right to vandalize the property of others?

Of course, we never have encountered a flawed person as president before ... not the progressive icon Woodrow Wilson, who re-segregated the White House; not the revered Franklin D. Roosevelt, who herded Japanese citizens into internment camps; not the two incredibly popular womanizers Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy--and we never have had a rock-star Beyonce and F-word, N-word Jay Z at the White House of a hyperbolic storytelling president like Barack "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" Obama, and, of course, there certainly were no flaws in the Democratic presidential candidate who, as Secretary of State, illegally put state secrets on her private email server, all the while soliciting "pay-to-play" checks for her "charitable" foundation.

Is the protesters' beef that the election was not fair? There have been no reports of voter intimidation--although there was that left-generated nonsense of the Russians hacking in to the benefit of Trump. It seems the complaints about Trump are conflated with the meme ungraciously perpetrated by Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine in an effort to boost Hillary Clinton's ego: she won more popular votes. That is a totally irrelevant, ignorant, and divisive statement perhaps meant to foment resentment and ill will.

Message to the looney left: the candidates were campaigning for each state's electoral votes (the number of congresspersons and both senators), the system set forth in our Constitution. The Electoral College treats the states as equal sovereignties to keep large states from swallowing up small ones.

It is the fight for electoral votes rather than popular votes that results in no one ever having to campaign, for example, in deep...