Election Day Blues

We're all on edge. Me too. But I'm kind of blue today because of something that happened yesterday. It had nothing to do with the election. Not quite sure I want to be specific about it. No one died, nor have I been told I'm terminally ill. I just got hit with something that made me sad. On top of that, my instincts are telling me that the person I might usually rely on for some emotional support won't see it as the same kind of punch in the gut I do, so I'm not really in a position to share it. Indeed, I'm only writing here because I am pretty sure no one reads this thing, ever. Just nice to be able to say I'm kind of down about something where, in theory, someone else might end up knowing I said so.

I hope Kamala wins today. Good news doesn't cancel bad news, but double doses of bad news are bad for the digestion, you know?

If she doesn't, well, we got through four years of a petulant man-child before. We'll do it again. Take note: he promised health care for everyone at low prices, a big beautiful wall that Mexico would pay for, and overturning Roe. He only did one of those things, and that's being reversed by the people in a lot of states today. His biggest achievement was delivering a vaccine in record time. Now, most of his supporters refuse to take that vaccine. Yes, he did awful things, like cutting taxes for the rich, banning transgender service in the military, and taking us out of the Paris accords. But, mostly, he was just a useless buffoon, drawing fake hurricane paths on NOAA maps with his Sharpie and suggesting we cure Covid with a shot of Lemon Pledge. He definitely hurt people, and he will again if he wins. We have to be ready to help those people, give them safe havens, and stand between them and those who would do them harm (because that's harm done to us as well). But he can't find enough capable people, much less any who play well together, to accomplish anything big or lasting. If he wins again, he'll make a lot of noise, call people a lot of names, and appoint rich idiots to positions they can't handle. We'll suffer from a lack of competent government, but I doubt we'll be in much danger from one.

So feeling a little blue today for a couple of reasons. Even if Kamala wins, we all know now that America isn't great today. That's one reason. She may lose, and that's another. Something came at me yesterday that didn't make me happy. That's another too.

Here's a little bit I wrote on a somewhat better day. It still works today. That's a help:

    To leave this place a little better than I found it.
    To finish with a little bit of style.
    To be remembered by a few folks, fondly,
    If only for a little while.