After elections, chop wood, carry water.

[swan_tower]

It would be too much to say I’m relieved. That would imply a more sanguine outlook on the next two years, the next four, the next decade than I actually have. Given the path this country has been on, it’s going to take a long time to truly turn it around.

But I’m not crushed, either. And given how I feared I was going to feel tonight, I’ll take that. There are a lot of things to be pleased with from the election results. If there are some to be disappointed by . . . well, that was always going to be the case.

Either way, the next step is the same. We keep organizing. We keep shouting. We keep voting. We keep protecting the vulnerable, the marginalized, the people the Republican Party is determined to wipe away, by violence or law or just plain disregard. We keep striving for that more perfect union, because it ain’t gonna happen without a lot of work. And nobody can do that work but us.

Mirrored from Swan Tower.

Comments

[sovay]

We keep striving for that more perfect union, because it ain’t gonna happen without a lot of work. And nobody can do that work but us.

I would have liked the Senate and I am disappointed that my state did not flip its governor. (I don't understand it. I don't understand what there is to like about Charlie Baker.) On the other hand, my state did not set the awful precedent of repealing trans rights. I feared it would be much worse.

[swan_tower]

The Senate is a disappointment but not a surprise. I'm going to console myself with the historic number of women, the Muslim-Americans, the Native Americans, the Latinx representatives -- all the diversity we've helped bring in, driving the door open just a little bit wider.

I'm sorry about Baker, though. I don't understand that one either.

[threeringedmoon]

Not as good as I hoped, but far better than I feared. After the past two years of the Republicans tearing this country down, gridlock looks like heaven.

[swan_tower]

Right now, getting nothing done is better than getting the wrong things done: the attacks on immigrants, healthcare, QUILTBAG rights, the environment, and all the rest of it.