Thanks, you all. I’m as adverse to confrontation as anyone, but just wanted to speak my mind in a place where I like to be.

In response to your addendum, Sherry, I think you’re dead-on. I should let you know I’m working on a piece calling for unity not just in the democratic party or in the US, but just everywhere. I agree. Too much tribalism everywhere. I’ve seen it in the U.K.’s most “civilised” town, some English thugs looking to slap around a Bangladeshi waiter, and in Korea, where I got slapped around for walking a woman home from work (and then got rescued by an older Korean woman from what was becoming a gathering crowd), but it bothers me more when I see it here.

And, man-o-man, are multinational corporations more our enemy than anyone we know face-to-face. They’d love nothing more than for people, especially the “little” people, to face off against each other. I’m convinced that the whole idea of the right’s “culture war” was/is to sell books (which it has done prodigiously) and to make ratings(which it has).

I’m off to drive a car cross country. Looking forward to posting more, now that school has ended.

Mike I love long sentences. You’ll find quite a few of them in my writing. Poets and English teachers aren’t always on the same wavelength.

Helen, No truer statement has been spoken. As guilty as I have been from time to time, as many have been, I still find it amazing how two people, who outside of politics, are almost identical in their day to day thinking, can spew so much vitriol over an election process.
WOW, if that wasn’t a run-on sentence!! My English Prof would be so proud!