No predictions, only warnings
A short election night rant. I'm only putting it on semi-main. You've got to subscribe to see it and I make no promises of it being worth the trouble.
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"The world we’re going down into, the kind of hate-world, slogan-world. The coloured shirts, the barbed wire, the rubber truncheons. The secret cells where the electric light burns night and day, and the detectives watching you while you sleep. And the processions and the posters with enormous faces, and the crowds of a million people all cheering for the Leader till they deafen themselves into thinking that they really worship him, and all the time, underneath, they hate him so that they want to puke." — George Orwell, Coming up for Air
No matter who wins this U.S. election, there is a fight to be had after it. If we get a rebooted Trump regime, my earlier post on insurrections covers that. If the Harris campaign wins, I have different concerns: That people go back to brunch for another four years. The fight against an authoritarian crook is more transparently difficult. the fight against 'bla' complacency may seem to have lower stakes, but it's how we avoid landing here again. The last four years should have been concerted effort to stop the present situation from being here.
