This week, "crooked Hillary" became "careless" Hillary. As in she was "extremely careless" in her handling of classified information, according to a crisp indictment-that-wasn't-an-indictment by FBI Director James Comey.

It was an embarrassing moment for Clinton – or, rather, one that should have been embarrassing. But there is a sense that she doesn't, well, care. She couldn't care less. As long as she is still the Democrat nominee, as long as she might be the first woman president, as long as she doesn't have to pay a fine or go to jail, she doesn't care about the fact that she may have put our country in danger with her careless actions when she was in a high position of public trust.

Indeed, it is her lack of caring about these things that we – the people – care very much about that is so troubling.

I get why Comey didn't recommend prosecution. As he put it, no "reasonable" prosecutor would bother in this case. But Comey's review of Clinton's behavior and decisions made it clear that no reasonable person should view her email shenanigans as anything less than deliberate and fairly obnoxious in their selfish motivations and relentlessly venal execution. It's not cool to ignore laws and rules that are there for other people's safety.

Now, I'm sure we've all had jobs where some kind of safety procedure seemed annoying or inconvenient. I recall a summer job, when I was a teenager, that required me to keep ice cream scoopers in a scalding-hot pot of water, secured to the side of a rolling cart. (I was a street vendor, my product was fresh Italian ice.) The inconvenience of this arrangement, for me, ranged from unwanted and unending steam facials on 90 degree, humid summer days to actual burns on my hands. Many's the time I wanted to cut the heat on that pot, to save my own skin.

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But state law required my scoopers to be sanitized. And my boss made it very clear I was to be in compliance with the law at all times, or I could find a job elsewhere.

Ignoring the sanitized-scoopers rule would have put both my employer and my customers at risk. So the heat stayed on. My hands occasional sustained small burns or scalds. And I sweated over the unwanted steam bath all summer while I served my customers in a way that was safe, sanitary and in accordance with state food safety law.

Let's be honest. If Clinton had walked a mile in my street-vendor-practical shoes that summer, she would have turned off the heat the first time she got scalded. Because she couldn't care less about rules, laws or rank-and-file citizens. They don't rank ahead of her own skin.

I suggest we start referring to 2016 as the "care less" election. Both of the major parties' candidates are careless in their words and deeds – because they couldn't care less about things that most of us find rather important.

Keeping classified government information secure? Clinton couldn't care less, because following government security procedures was inconvenient for her.

Displaying thoughtful leadership on difficult issues, like immigration and race? Donald Trump couldn't care less. He thinks being politically correct is a bigger sin than being a little bit racist.