Vulgarians At The Gate

Early voting in Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania shows massive turnout in Red counties, which means Trump is likely to win those states and with them, the election.

Of course, there is no such thing as one man/one vote in America: The votes of largely rural states like the Dakotas, Montana, Arizona count way more than the votes of inner city folk in New York City or Baltimore.

So the will of "the people" will not get us our next President. A thumb on the scales, obsolescent, special interest anti-democratic scheme will make Trump, once again, a minority President, just as it did the last time he got "elected." Hitler never got a majority of votes. But he got enough.

It's only four years.

But it will be an aggravating, stupid, mean spirited, nasty four  years. 

And for those of us who may have, at best 10 years left, it's a crummy swing of the pendulum.

We have always been the home of the free, land of the brave, but we have also been the land of lynchings, and eradication of the buffalo and subjugation of the Indians and our boys died fighting Hitler's hordes, in racially segregated army units, and we massacred Vietnamese in their villages rather than allow them to become communists (destroying villages to save them) and we shot down students at Kent State with the townsfolk saying they had it coming to them, just after a summer of peace and love event at Woodstock, and we loved our gangsters like Al Capone, and Bonnie and Clyde, and we have had our assassins who got Lincoln and Martin Luther King, but we elected Obama twice and we have been all those things.

So now we'll have Donald Trump. Again.

This America, man.