Post-election post

[neadods]

It's no good my discussing the election and trying to parse what the fuck just happened and what the fuck will happen. But what I can do and will do is suggest a course of action that can be taken by anyone in any country who is worried about things spinning out of control

1) Give yourself a holiday present of a subscription to a newspaper to support investigative journalism. Also give yourself 52+ sheets of professional looking stationery w/envelopes, a nice pen, 3 books of stamps.

2) Make this New Year's resolution: To sign up for the "take action" emails of at least one lobbying group that you support and to TAKE THE ACTION at least once a week. Make the call. Use the stationery.

First they came for the Muslims, and we said "Not this time, motherfuckers!"

Comments

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure we should be promoting a presidential candidate now. That's what we did last time and it didn't work well. The front-runner years in advance is rarely the eventual candidate, because people get sick of him/her, and he/she has plenty of time to make mistakes that will be brought up repeatedly, no matter how minor, and maybe a big mistake like Gary Hart's. And the last campaign literally lasted for years and everybody is freakin' sick of campaigns for a while.

Behind the scenes, for now, yes, look for several good candidates.

And let me state, as I will be stating for the next four years and am already tired of having to state: the American voters did not elect Trump. The electoral college system has, for the second time in 16 years, given us a "winner" who is not the candidate who got the most votes. At last count Clinton was ahead of Trump by over 1.7 million votes. The electoral college needs to die.