And so the worlds insatiable oligarchs mngd to hijack yet another election ... can one say rigged ?
0330 Nov 6 ; I couldnt toss n turn any longer ... time to smell the java & turn on MSNBC .... You've got to be kidding me .... seriously ? America voted for the fascist ... AGAIN ? Damn it !
We truly are a country 50% full of fools & political arsonists.
While gobsmacked w/ disbelief and disgust, I have to vent some preliminary thoughts ;
I remember the last time I was so politically disappointed, when the airbag; raygun stole (see Iran hostages) the election from the honorable President ; James Carter, I was so disheartened as a young mid 20 yr old as he unleashed the rightwing insanity/intolerance we still suffer today. What I learned tho., is americas march to the future continued, perhaps not unabated w/ Watt as head of interior, yet life continued, and we public employees went years w/o real income growth, but somehow many of us mngd to gain weight & a scintilla of wisdom. The country did not devolve completely and we stumbled into the future, despite the solar panels being removed from our Whitehouse.
Im not sure how this crisis in govt will turn out, but I suspect after the shock & hyperventillating ...we thinkers & doer's are going to be all right, if not better. Like patriot Yovanovitch, we can expect to go thru " some rough things" : {
Blame the blue party for their loss, Biden should never have been put up for reelection, the countrys crisis demanded strong creative-charismatic candidates ; Imagine if we had run Sen. Whitehouse w/ Sen. Klobuchar or Sen Kelly as VP ... but no, somehow the best political minds had to roll the "diversity dice" and leave us coming up short w/ snake eyes., endless black voices on TV & soc. media fanning the flames of the egregious white devils (~70% of the electorate). Such a gamble, such an unforced error.
Our oligarch owned media largely completed the psy-ops coup.
Consider (via NBC) " Thanks to Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United, the plutocrats’ influence over our political system is greater than ever. In this cycle alone, 150 billionaire families have given nearly $2 billion to presidential and congressional candidates, and over 70% of that has gone to Republicans. The top seven donors and their families, including Timothy Mellon, Elon Musk and Miriam Adelson, have donated $818 million almost entirely to help Trump. Without this support, Trump’s cash-strapped campaign would be nearly dead in the water. Mellon, Musk and Adelson have, by themselves, donated nearly as much money as Harris and Biden raised from millions of small donors across the entire campaign.
Time to take a deep breath ... & exhale slowly, I shall follow my own advice and contemplate whats next as I meet iitoi's glorious sunrise high on a ridgeline. Life goes on till it doesn't.
For my mountains, prairies, oceans, and deserts ... I am disgruntled & disgusted, I lament I wont be able to see how history treats this incredible time in our politics.
I now wonder if "democracy" is really the best form of govt. in a land of lies and unlimited greed., not that we've ever...really tried it.
Stay strong, for this too shall pass, paz / John