We Voted – Your Turn Next!

While occasionally I’ll drop some snarky political comment on this site, for the most part I deliberately keep the political rants to a minimum. This is large part because once I get started, I’m not sure there’s any bottom any more to that toxic subject. Over on social media it’s a different story. Anyone who used to follow me when I was on Twitter, or follows me now on Facebook, Mastodon, Spoutible, Bluesky, Threads, or Tribel knows that I’m pretty far to the left (blue/Democratic/liberal) end of the political spectrum, and unapoligetically so. So it’s no surprise that I voted a liberal, Democratic line up and down the ballot. I will never, EVER vote again for a Republican, from President to assistant junior dog catcher, not even if there’s a gun to my head. And if TFG inexplicably gets back into the White House, that’s where I expect to be in four years. Our elections will be about as fair and honest as those in Russia or North Korea.

While California has extremely pro-voter policies and practices (everyone gets an absentee, vote-by-mail ballot, you can drop them off in any one of thousands of secure locations or mail it back and there’s a whole system of text messages, emails, and voice mails that keep you in the loop on whether or not your ballot has been mailed, received, or counted) other places might be less friendly to making it easy for folks to vote. Yes, that really, really is because the GOP-controlled government in those states is actively working to prevent folks from voting because almost universally these days, when folks are free to vote they’re not fond of the fascist and totalitarian policies being pushed by the Republicans and the billionaires supporting them. Reality’s a bitch. If you’re in one of those areas, even if it’s hard, please do what you need to do to vote and get your vote counted. Nothing’s ever going to change if you don’t.

The next twenty days will be excrutiating for me and a good chunk of the world I suspect. I don’t expect unicorns and rainbows if Harris & Walz get elected, but I’m quite certain that the tenth level of Hell and economic nightmares will be on the menu if TFG and Vance (who is worse somehow) are allowed access to power.

Let’s all make good decisions.