Interesting night last night. I was doing my thing (watching soap box derby videos) and suddenly my social media feed was crowded with election results.

 It looked like the end of a Star wars movie. 
Cheers and hugs and music. A lot of villains got vanquished and the nation's character was healed a little bit. 100 women elected as reps, queer folks, black folks, Natives and Latinos, all kinna folks who never get a say got elected. 
The bigoted lady who wouldn't let gay folks marry was trounced by a gay guy. YES! 
I raced upstairs expecting Olive to be elated. She wasn't. She had results feeds up too. 
She likes the wins but the losses were sobering. People still voted red despite Trumps fear-mongering and racist easy tricks. Voter suppression and gerrymandering are still huge problems. 
Also the top of the Dem party are as beholden to banks and war profiteers as the Republicans. Pelosi and Booker are far more likely to side with pharmaceutical companies than grannies. We shouldn't be voting for "superdeligates" ever. Est. Dems aren't as manipulative as the reds but they are just as greedy and happy to not fight for things. 
They are masters of snatching losses from the jaws of victory. We don't need people who get paid to lose. 
For the thousands of kids we see every year to have a good future to inherit, we need more than a blue wave. 
Everyone needs to be informed and progressive to keep the country from slipping into chaos and environmental upheaval. Olive did end with a good note. Everything we voted for passed. I'm glad we are in agreement with a majority of our neighbors. I'm sorry for the folks who didn't get what they wanted. I don't have any ill will to folks who voted against my wishes. You followed your trail of conclusions and did what ya had to do, just like me. Big biz lost in Oregon, it's still a blue state but people need to be involved. 
Politics are NOT like sports teams. Ya gotta do more than cheer. 
Even leaders we voted for need lots and lots of over-site and watchdog groups to keep em shooting straight. Thanks for participating in democracy everyone. Congrats to all the "justice democrats" who won.
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Taking a walk in our favorite town, and joying the sights and sounds of our community.

We can win back the country. It's not easy but there are a lot more of us, and we have the moral high ground, most of the culture and all the eggheads. It's not exactly geniuses in the Trump camp, he talks like a 4th grader and all his tricks are less complicated than a Nigerian Email scam. Even superstitious racists don't like getting ripped off. His divestment papers were fake, his hair is fake and even his cake was fake. Trump's plundermonkeys are very obviously moving on our national trust like a bitch Still I think we can win the country. We just gotta out think this and then learn up our knuckleheaded cousins before 45 starts a distraction war stateside or shuts down the internet. or sumsuchnonsense.
Good luck out there Friends.
It's a great time to do some Americaning.
If you are afraid then maybe you aren't doing enough, if you aren't concerned maybe you aren't understanding enough,
If you need inspiration read the poem on the Statue of Liberty.

"The New Colossus"
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"