Wednesday, November 6, 2024

THE DAY AFTER

 A friend asked what I would do now following the election. My answer: “One thing I won’t do is join a raging mob and go crap on the floor of our United States Capitol building. Other than that, I don’t know.

Thoughts that come to mind are from our great writers:

“Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath; - Swinburne

“The fewer men, the greater share of honor.” – Shakespeare

And one ray of comfort from a protestant hymn:

“The sun’s coming up in the morning.”

We can resist but it must be done in a more challenging way. We have to face the reality that yesterday may have accommodated the last real election in America for some time. The playbook so far derived directly from Nazi Germany. Much of the support came from Russia.

That doesn’t bode well for free and honest elections.

I’ve seen some times that most Americans, probably less than one percent, haven’t during which I wasn’t sure the sun was coming up in the morning.

Know what? It always did.

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