Well, yesterday was Election Day. I did not
intend to watch any of the returns last night. I voted weeks ago. I had basically my last word the day before yesterday, in a Facebook post which pretty much said it all – actually a repost
of what I wrote four years ago, with current commentary. So, first the post
from back then, in 2012:
Eyes wide open. That's how America has collectively chosen to take
on four more years of Obama. No longer can we take solace in the notion that we
fell victim to the charisma of a masterful campaigner who promised to take us
past the divisions of the past into a brave new world. Having seen how well
that has worked out for the past four years, we (as a nation, by the slimmest
of popular vote margins, by a wider margin in the Electoral College, but that
is our system for better or worse) have chosen four more years. I fear it will
be much longer than that, because whereas I believe there was a chance to turn
back from the brink now, I believe that four more years will entrench such
radical change to the very nature of our country that there will be no going
back. Perhaps the saddest thing to me is that slightly more than half of our
people are perfectly fine with, even desirous of, that. This is what they want.
... No, really the saddest thing to me is that the slightly LESS than half of
our people must now live under the same deteriorating conditions that they
strove to avert. But that is our system, for better or worse. God bless
America, for we surely need it.
