A Worse Place than Hell...

 “If there is a place worse than hell, I am in it.”

- Abraham Lincoln, December 1962, after the Battle of 

Fredericksburg and almost two years of bloody civil war.

Intellectually we have known that this was a very possible result of the 2024 election. It has been a period of awful post-pandemic worldwide political unrest. In one democracy after another the incumbents of every political stripe have been thrown out. Still -- as someone who so loves our American founding principles and who has always believed the arc of history bends toward justice -- it is so hard to accept. 

I now must spend at least four years (if he and/or I have them*) of however few years I have left on this planet worrying about whether our republic will survive for my fourth granddaughter who will be born next May. By that time a sexual predator, fraud, unprecedented liar, election cheat, insurrectionist, and wannabe dictator will hold the reins of our unitary executive branch.**

I pray that the work of Jack Smith -- and the work of the J6 House committee and the Mueller investigation, etc. before it -- will be preserved for history. These are dark days for America, as Jimmy Kimmel has pointed out, whoever you voted for and whether you know it yet or not.

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* Trump and I are 78 and 77 respectively and the actuarial tables are what they are. Nature or Trump's brown shirts could take me out sooner.

** Even I, who have despised the behavior and words of Donald Trump from the first I ever heard of him, am just astounded that the description of him in this sentence is not hyperbole but documented fact from the results of multiple jury trials, justice department or Congressional investigations, or video or audio recordings of the First Felon himself.