Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> If *I* am the one espousing optimism, then
> maybe hell has finally frozen over!

The Cubs won the World Series.  I said to myself, OMG, this is the first 
sign of the Apocalypse.

This is literally true.  I am neither superstitious nor particularly a 
sports fan, but this was, in fact, the first moment I began to feel fear 
for my country.  How idiotic is that?

It never occurred to me that anyone could bring out the White Trash vote 
to that extent.  (Indeed, many of them, being convicted felons, aren't 
allowed to vote.)

It never occurred to me that anyone who had expressed such hatred of 
Hispanics could ever carry Florida.

It never occurred to me that anyone who had expressed such contempt of 
working people could ever get their vote.

IIRC, I was five or six years old when I began to suspect that most 
people in the world were irremediably stupid.  And yet, and yet, it 
never occurred to me that they were remotely capable of taking over.

One may hope for miracles.  A sinkhole could open under Trump Tower and 
consume whatever vermin might be infesting it.  A giant meteor could 
strike the podium on Inauguration Day and rid the world of a number of 
cancers.  Or, or maybe, maybe, a Rift in the Space-Time Continuum could 
open up in my front yard and Lazarus Long and his Magic Starship could 
appear and carry me away to a place where people are intelligent and 
kind, and dogs are revered as brethren and the makers of our species, 
and stupid shit like this Does Not Happen.

Bah.  Humbug.  Time to stock up on canned food and ammo.

Sherry "Don't Blame Me; I Voted For Hillary" Shaw

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