The Endless Election Season
A Final Resolution Might Take Months
What I would like to do is curl up in a cocoon and not wake up until after the election on November 5th. In lieu of that, I’m tempted to refrain from almost all activity except for eating, sleeping, and walking the dog. I definitely don’t want to read about the latest election polling results. Writing or reading on Medium has zero appeal right now. Depression hovers, energy level is as low as it gets for me. How can the sun keep on shining, people go about their normal routines as if this momentous occasion is not about to happen. But then, what choice do most of us have. Life is funny like that, it goes on heedless of human concerns of the moment.
As November 5th draws ever so slowly nearer, try as I might I can’t seem to focus on anything else. Part of me says that even in the worse case scenario: Trump wins, and the Republicans take control of both the House and Senate, it won’t be the end of the world. Most of me, however, believes that the country will not recover in my lifetime if that happens, even if I live another ten to fifteen years. Division and mistrust already high, will deepen. There will be a ripple effect among many of the other democracies in the world, those already on the defensive from right wing activists growing stronger in their respective countries. My faith in my fellow Americans is…
