For The People

 Democracy has come to the USA. - Leonard Cohen "Democracy"

A much more clever person than myself made a post on the night of November 4, Election Night: "genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died"

I might quibble with the lack of capitalization or the distinction between beauty and irony, but the thought still holds. In the middle of what feels like the end of the world as we know it, there was room to rejoice. The most populous city in these United in name States has elected an avowed socialist, someone from whom the right leaning establishment has pledged to flee Manhattan if such a thing came to pass.

It has.

The Orange Wurst, from his bunker deep beneath the renovated bathroom, sent out his own analysis:  “…AND SO IT BEGINS!” 

There's your upper case letters, the solid show of force we have come to expect from this regime. If you're unable to make a coherent point, capitalize it. 

What does that ominous sounding missive mean? Reasonable people, and I do count my readers as such, will flinch only because the way things have been going lately it seems that invading Venezuela would be a predictable next step in the face of the electoral rejection of all that this convicted felon stands for. Democratic women won governorships in New Jersey and Virginia. In Virginia's case, Abigail Spanberger was the first woman to take that seat in the state's two hundred thirty-seven year history. Someone commented on the announcement coming early on election night: "That was fast." I countered with the observation that waiting more than two centuries for a woman to be elected governor didn't necessarily qualify as "fast." 

So I did have some clever social media myself. 

And here in California, voters decided to allow the redistricting of the Golden State. This should have the effect of allowing five additional seats for Democratic representatives with midterms coming in 2026. 

That feels like a victory. 

Maybe not the triumph we were all hoping for, but it will have to do.