So yeah, I voted Tuesday. In my rural community, I had gone to vote at around lunchtime. The weather was nice, and the sun was shining. As I drove down the country road to the volunteer fire station where the polls are, I saw the sunlight reflecting off a bunch of car windshields.
That were parked along the side of the road.
By the time I got to the polls and found a place to park, the line was out the front, snaked out back, and went down to this shed at the back corner of the parking lot. To the poll workers’ credit, I was only in line for about twenty minutes. Even then, by the time I left I found out that I was one of over 1200 people who had cast their ballot that day.
All the peace I wanted to feel after casting my vote was destroyed by the chaos that has followed. Even after acknowledging that this process was going to take a while, it still hurts to see a process unfold in an agonizing way to right an historic wrong. Hell, I was prepared for the president’s outlandish theatrics on Wednesday morning, but it doesn’t stop me from being a little angry.
I got to see a person in power lie to a bunch of cameras, and get cheered for it.
I got to hear a bunch of angry Americans chanting to stop counting votes.
I got to see millions of people vote for a guy whose poor management has gotten more Americans killed than in most of our wars.
Even if this was a purely democratic process, these things would be the same. While I understand that people vote for different reasons, I have to wonder if this is the best anyone really has to offer. Sure, it’s a step up from mandatory wars to put tyrants on thrones. But how far up is that step?
At any rate, my mind has been focused on the negative side of things far too long. While some of my earlier points might be valid, they also don’t fully characterize the few good things that people have done over the past several days. And after all is said and done, I do think this process will lead to an end of a four year nightmare.
It’s just disappointing to see how pathetic some people are getting simply because they can’t be allowed to make the same mistake twice in four years.
Amusing Nonsense 
How does stopping vote counting help their candidate?
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It’s a complicated answer, Mak. Basically Trump’s strategy assumes that most mail-in and absentee ballots cast this year were by people who voted for Biden. So, his early lawsuits were in states to make sure those ballots weren’t going to get counted before election day Tuesday.
The second part to his strategy – that everyone saw coming – would be to limit vote counting to election day alone. Thus, he could isolate Democratic ballots and try to prevent them from being counted. Unfortunately for him, nobody’s going along with it.
Even if all of his lawsuits get thrown out, and the election is called for Biden, the circus still isn’t over. But that’s a whole new set of problems.
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Thanks SB. He has turned the election into a circus
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Initially what he wanted to do was to have segregated voting, where democrats entered a special voting booth, a trap door opened in the floor, and they came out in China.
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And this idea seems to have failed terribly
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I don’t know! They say 10’s of thousands of voters have disappeared from voter lists in places like Georgia. I say they’re in China 😀
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Hahahaha.
This is going to be interesting.
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