Election Day--a day that will live in .......?

We are approaching the end, thank God, of our election season.  As I sit in front of the TV and try to digest what I see, it is so discouraging to be alive and witnessing what might be the disintegration of our America.  It just seems like there is a kind of insanity that is gripping half of our people.  Truth, honest truth, has been abandoned.  There seems to be a mass hysteria that has infected almost half our citizens.  It is an infection of anger, mistrust, belief in conspiracies, acceptance of lies as truth, abandonment of compromise, disgust for democratic principles we have been taught to cherish and honor.  There is a belief among these people that facts and reality are unimportant in the quest for power.

 

There are people who are about to possibly take the reins of our government and our society who accept the notion that truth is overrated.  Greed and power are all that matters, and reality is a myth.  Our democratic republic cannot exist in that kind of an environment.  A democratic republic has as its foundation the rule of law and the peaceful transition of power.  We have suffered through the leadership of a man who rejects both of those bedrock tenets and who has created a cult of followers who blindly pay obeisance to his lies.  Power is simply to be held onto at all costs, no matter the will of the people.

 

His 'plan' was to instill fear, hatred and violence in our body politic with an eye toward slowly, but relentlessly, replacing all those who believed in the tenets of our democracy with toadies and sycophants who revel in hisview of corruption in the service of greed and power.  

He has succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams or nightmares.  He hovers in the wings like a malevolent blood sucking insect waiting for his minions to summon him back into power so he can continue feeding off the fears and paranoia of his followers and those of us who cry out in anguish at the loss of our dream of equality and tranquility.

No matter how loud the rest of us scream that a bleak future awaits us upon the success of this minority, we seem unable to stop them.....Well it does seem that way doesn't it?

 

And so, cometh the day of reckoning this Tuesday, November 8, 2022.  If the rest of us can amass enough energy to outvote this bubbling cauldron of liars, we might be able to salvage our democracy from the jaws of election deniers and those who would bow down to autocracy and fascism.  

 

I would like to agree with Michael Moore, the well-known documentary film maker who in the past has tried to reveal the corruption of various segments of our society.  Of all the pundits I see on television who all 'tsk, tsk' their fears of the disappearance of our democracy, Moore is the only one who is optimistic in his prediction.  He says that there are 'more of us than them', and all we have to do is show up and vote.  He is expecting a resounding clarion call to our better angels.  

 

I wish I had his faith......Vote like your life depended on it---it does!