Bring on the early returns!

I have been waiting for this day for a very long time.

I often refer to myself as an “aging hippie”, but I was a teenager in the early Seventies, which really makes me a Sixties wannabe. And that has been NO fun. After the energy and optimism of the Sixties, we were left with Nixon, Disco, and the eventual Gateway to Cynicism, when a whole generation got sold on a second-tier actor hired to play the President. Thirty damn years of political disappointment watching America descend into it’s own Dante’s Inferno underscoring the Sixties commentary, “You get the government you deserve.”

Today we get a chance to cure that sickness, to choose a road that will let us heal and realize our better selves. With that in mind, two prescriptions from my favorite Doctors, and the heartfelt plea to Go Out and Vote!

“History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of ”history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time — and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.”

- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

“With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day — this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the “I Have a Dream” speech, August 28th, 1963

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A glow you could see from Russia.