Midterms Hangover

 

It was a wonderful, joyous, and hopeful experience viewing the election map this morning after. I watched the election for a solid four hours last night, switching between the various news channels, and as they called one seat after another for the Democrats and the amount of blue increased on the various election maps on the channels, it became obvious that America wanted America to be America again, to paraphrase the Langston Hughes poem. We have been a great nation that has done great things for the benefit of its people and for the world . I'm not blind to our part in the worst situations both domestically and internationally, but it seems to me that we've righted ourselves and got on the beam again, willing, and able to do the right thing. But Trump was a horror both in his first term and a worse debacle in his second; he is what happens if you let a cut-rate banana republic strongman take charge of the power being President brings you. God willing and the creek don't rise, the Democrat will take on the long task of setting things right and bringing Trump and his sycophants to an accounting for their sins against the nation. Remember that their wasn't much ticket splitting in the various results: voters rejected Republican slates throughout the night and put Democrats in their place, in the House, the Senate, and in the Governor's offices. I hope this shows the national change of mood and that our better angels can now guide us to a new time of justice, peace and good deeds in general. But has been said, there is much work to be done. But I am hopeful, for a change, and that's not nothing.