Vote, damn it, or face the end

Like you, like everyone, I am increasingly concerned about where we are headed as a society and a nation. Let’s consider the situation, shall we? We are in the middle of a pandemic, we are on the verge of a serious recession if not an outright depression, we have a president who is irresponsible and ineffective (except in so far as he can wreck the accomplishments of others), we have millions of deplorables who are heavily armed and eager to use their weapons on someone...and, oh, yes, we have enemies both foreign and domestic who are eager to flood the air waves and internet with rumors, falsehoods, and slanders. 

I fear that unless we are very lucky, it is all too likely that we will have serious civil unrest on our hands in the all too near future.

The Future With Trump

The question is what do we do about it? The only thing I can think of is for us all to vote Trump out of the White House...and then stand ready to defend the results of that election from a GOP which looks increasingly like a criminal or fascistic organization, and from Trump supporters who may go into the streets caressing their beloved automatic weapons.

Which means...

That right now the very worst thing any of us can do...the worst!...is to decide not to vote for Biden. If any of us says we “just can’t support him” because a “lesser evil is still an evil,” or because he isn’t Bernie, or because those sexual harassment claims are almost certainly false but “you just can’t be too sure...” or a hundred other reasons, then we actively support Trump’s return to the White House.

And the results of that...

Are too horrible to consider.

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About me: I’m a writer and former journalist who has published material on everything from computers to the Jazz Age. (Among my small claims to fame is that I interviewed Steve Jobs just after that talented if complicated man got kicked out of Apple, and just before the company’s Board came begging him to come back.)

Please check out my new book, Padre: To The Island, a meditation on mortality, grief, and joy, based on the lives and deaths of two of the most amazing and unconventional people I ever met, my mother and father.

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