Early November

A fine tale about your uncles, Mr. Beagles, and easy to visualize a couple of kids hiding in the mud after their little stunt.  I think Ah-nuld did the same thing in the movie Predator and he got away with it too.  I doubt that the .22 caused any damage to the plane but the pilot didn't know that; maybe all he saw were a couple of figures and some smoke from a long gun.  But at a distance a couple of kids with a .22 could be mistaken for adults with a 30-06, hence the immediate response.  Better safe than sorry.  Think those boys needed a change of underwear?

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Tomorrow is a big day for some and I'll be glad when it's over and we enter a new phase of conspiracy theories.  This is the first time that I've seen such a large amount of early votes, more than 75 million so far; that's got to mean something.  And I wonder if some folks are taking a longer view in case something would happen to the new president.  The notion of a President Vance does not give me comfort.  There is a bright side to all of this political darkness, though.  I don't think I'm the only person looking forward to the sentencing of a certain individual with 34 felony convictions.

Democracy what is it good for?

 

 If we elect Harris and she does not live up to expectations, we can always vote her out in four years.  I'm not sure I could confidently say the same thing about Trump.

I couldn't agree more with Beagles' analysis and decision.  I remember way back to I think it was the winter of 2015 during the primaries.  The reporters of CNN were way out in Bumfuck, New Hampshire I think.  It was a cold and snowy night and from their copter they showed a line of headlights all down the road, and as the copter flew over them there were more, and still more, and still more after that.  

They were all going to the polling place.  What a tribute to American democracy I thought.  How proud I was of my fellow Americans.  And then I realized they were all lined up in the cold gloom of the night to cast their ballots for Donald J Trump.

Ah Democracy, one man one vote, the voice of the people, the American way.  How proud we are of our peaceful exchanges of power.

In the 60s when Europe was setting its African colonies free the word of the land was democracy.  Let them enjoy the fruits of democracy and their enlightened countries would join the rest of the world in peaceful cooperation.

But there were some other voices who were saying maybe these countries aren't ready for democracy.  This caused a hew and cry.  Why you racists are you saying that Black people aren't capable of having a democracy.  Why you miserable racist!

But the fact was that these Black people living in the colonies had no experience in self governing.  The colonizers made all the decisions and they had no say.  There were no native leaders, there were no institutions.  There was just a bunch of tribes.  When they voted everyone just voted for their tribe, usually by a picture on the ballot.  The biggest tribe won of course, and the smaller tribes were resentful and raised a ruckus and I think that is still going on.

Well we are Americans we are educated, we can tell what is going on because we have access to the facts and can make decisions based on that.

Used to be that way.  Now we have facts that aren't facts, and true facts are ignored and we are not that removed from the colonized Africans in our outlook.

Democracy is part of The Liberal Agenda.  There will be schools, there will be traveling, there will be newspapers reporting just the facts Ma'am.  The people will wisely and deftly steer the Ship of State past the shoals of destruction.

6:37 am now.  I guess I will be doing my stuff around the house listening to CNN as I usually do, but not that closely because it is all speculation.  Too close to call, but then they go on and discuss indicators.  Which sex is voting early in greater numbers?  How will the disabled Puerto Rican lesbians Methodists vote?

Tomorrow morning I will go down the stairs to the polling place just minutes after six, likely will be the first voter and walk out with one of those proud silly little stickers that say I voted.  I took part in Democracy.