Happy Election Day‽

I once happily declared Election Day my favorite holiday. I have such wonderful memories of the peaceful transition of power of presidents (Bush to Clinton is one of my favorite political memories) and I found the entire process so encouraging, like the parties can disagree on how to spend money, but we agree on basic principles - we should do the best thing for the country, try to not be jerks, and listen to people. I found presidential handoff of power so HOPEFUL. 

Speaking of hopeful, I can barely stand to think about poor, naive 2016 NGS who was positively GIDDY after voting for Hilary Clinton. GIDDY. I don't think I need to remind you how that turned out. 

Today my stomach is in knots. What if Trump wins? Like, he's the one with nuclear codes? What if Harris wins? Will MAGA revolt? Will there be riots? Civil war? 

I've been listening to a lot of Garth Brooks lately (for a post that no one besides TJC will find interesting) and there's a line in the song "Do What You Gotta Do" on the album Sevens:

Hey, you just tell them true
Because they can't take the truth from you
So do what you got to do

There's so much in this world right now. Fake news. Fake AI news. Deep fakes. Russian bots. It sometimes feels like we are Winston and Julia and 2+2 is 5. But, hey.

They can't take the truth from us. They can't.

And to quote another Garth Brooks song ("Belleau Wood," also from Sevens): 

And he raised his hand and smiled at me
As if he seemed to say
"Here's hoping we both live to see us
Find a better way"

I don't like to think of my fellow citizens as the enemy, but right now we are literally fighting for the future of this country. 

Go vote for good, fellow Americans.

Non-Americans, here's hoping we do you proud, too. 

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