Election hangover recap. A few silver linings. Minimum wage hikes won in several places. Not exactly the revolution but a few more dollars in the pockets of hard working families is definitely something to feel good about. The lunatic fringe (i.e. you are a person deserving the full protection of the government from conception till the moment you are born, at which time we throw you to the wolves) got sent packing, again, in Colorado.
On most other fronts the billionaire capitalists have seem to have carried the day. Big shocker there. Then again there is a part of me that wants to go on a rooftop and shout:
“Hey America, I know that most of the time you are only given a choice between voting for “Billionaires for Capitalism” and “Capitalists for Billionaires”. But if you are going to vote for a capitalist billionaire, couldn’t you at least pick the ones who, you know, understand science? I am not expecting that they will really fix the problem but they might buy us some time? So that maybe there is still a planet worth living on for our grandchildren? Is that too much to ask for?”
Apparently it is.
So this is what we have folks. Now, can we let go of the should have/shouldn’t have voted pissing match we find ourselves in and get down to real work? Because the ballot box, even when it goes a lot more our way than it did last night, will not grant us the world we want and deserve. We have to build that one ourselves.
See you out there.
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