Let me have a light to hold in the darkness (morning writing)

[elainegrey]

Dad wanted to talk this morning, driving home from his sweetie's, where they watched the returns all night with disbelief. I'd not followed the reporting, just peeking at the NY Times decision arrow (holding the striking tech workers in my heart) and the electoral-vote.com site. Christine came home from watching with her sister, feeling despondent

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[liveonearth]

I wasn't into tracking the results. Having spent a lot of time in Tennessee recently I had already seen how the people's worldview, their culture, their radio, their daily banter, is anti-left. I already knew. I wanted people to vote with their minds instead of their guts but people are emotional, intuitive creatures. And lazy on top of that. So we live in sad times, when all the effort that has gone into democracy is going down the tubes