Good morning. Today we will have what I think if the 6th time we are having the most important election of our lifetime. This is the first time I am not sure if this is hyperbole.
For as long as I remember it seems I wake up at 4:00 a.m. (now in standard time 3:00 a.m.). Sometimes my mind is so full that it is hard to go back to sleep. I see more and more people saying that this election today is about getting a good night's sleep. That we aren't going to have to think about the President so that it makes restfulness difficult. I don't think it is the President that is waking me up all the time but I do often find myself checking the news to see what is going on. What I do know I have found myself worried about his actions throughout the Presidency during my waking hours. There are many things that have me questioning the ability of our institutions to survive another Trump administration.
He has attacked and gutted so much of the Executive Branch it is going to take a while to rebuild them when a new President takes over. I had great faith in the established government but from early on this President decided to undermine the function of so much of the Federal system, calling anyone who challenged his actions as part of the deep state and allowing the ignorant to buy into this disgusting attack on so many long-term public servants. This dismantling of the pillars of good government is dangerous for many reasons, including leaving us vulnerable to foreign and domestics attacks.
Domestic attacks are also a big worry. President Trump has empowered the radical fringe on the right who travel in white nationalist, anti-immigration, anti-Semitic and Anti-Muslim circles. Our country has always had a festering wound of hate and the President continues to keep it open poking at it with the dirty tool of language that is heard by these terrorists as encouragement. Recent attacks on the Biden campaign bus is a great example.
As Election Day neared we see cities across the country board up their downtown stores. Many people say their fear the left rioting if the President wins. But for many others the concern is the Trump supporters attacking if he loses. Imagine the tension of a country that has to worry about the destruction of property because of an election. Like a developing nation new to democracy trying to vote out a dictator. This is not who we are.
Today we as a country have our last chance to say this and so much more is bad for our country. During the last several weeks the President has tried to stop people from being able to cast their vote or have their legal votes counted. Throughout the country he and the Republican party have tried to tell people only votes counted on Election Day should count (that is lie) if votes are counted after the polls closer that is unusual and open to corruption (neither of those things are true) and of course the lies about mail-in vote fraud which is rare. We may not know the winner of the election for President until Friday and that is okay. All votes should count. It is up to us to decide the direction of the country.
So, as election day starts, if you voted, thank you, if you haven't get to the polls, and be prepared for a long haul. Stay strong and know, regardless of the outcome, America is strong. We have survived a number of things just in the last century or so. Two World Wars, The Great Depression, the rise of both Fascism and Communism, and so on and so on. Have faith, but if you are concerned vote Blue all the way down the ticket. The time is now.
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