Same. I did my civic duty and I feel good about that. I'm getting others to register and vote also, I feel good about that too.

But I know, even if we win this fight, that doesn't mean victory; it just means taking on the next fight, which is to find and elect (or, failing that, become) candidates who will reject AIPAC, tax billionaires, give people education, healthcare, legal weed, fast internet, and social safety nets, reform the prison system, reform the military industrial complex, forbid stock trading among congresspeople, re-implement corporate regulation, rebuild our institutions, oh and fucking fight climate change before we all kill each other in the water wars, and probably a bunch of other shit too.

At some point, one really has to ask ourselves, "If they're gonna ignore the rules and do whatever they want, and if we're going to stop them, why shouldn't we do the same?"

One whole page of my ballot only had single choices. All of them were Republican. I didn't fill that page in.

I heard something the resonated with me: "you take the bus to the closest stop to your destination."

We still need to walk, sometimes pretty far, but it's right thing to do. Walking is the with we do between voting - primary engagement, community involvement, protests, letters, etc. Most people expect to stop at voting, but even in multi -party systems, there's rarely a perfect fit.

It makes sense to be tired, for sure, but there are bad folks out there that want you too tired to even vote - screw 'em

if the candidate I picked wins I won’t be happy, just relieved

Evolution isn't immediate: we would have to go to a few 'acceptable' outcomes if that's the only way to push the window over to better choice down the line.

People who don't get that may want to brush up on how evolution works to fix bad systems; and also understand how primates evolved from whales, or something.

this year was not to bad for me with the primaries. In many cases there were three front runners. One that was really progressive. One that was a pretty good choice and one that felt like machine or really to much saying what was popular to be heard at the moment of time (based on their political history). Now the very progressive did not win but neither did the mouthpiece. So its not like I have to hold my nose. Its just that there was a better one and it kinda suxs they did not get it.

My fear is if it can be worse. I said similar in several recent elections …… but now looking back the bushes were such mild cases of worse for the country, barely a preview of what we have now. Bush was bad for the country but intelligent, poised, and well versed in at least foreign affairs. Bush junior was a bumbling fool but where we lost respect of the international community but at least did limited harm. McCain may have been a hero but had poor ideas for governing and I wouldn’t trust palin to run a stop sign. Pence had well deserved criticism. Then we got Trump. This time “evil” seems well deserved for the first time ever.

Although I have to admit Romney was an interesting possibility. It’s easy to dismiss him as a vulture capitalist but I thought he did well as governor of Massachusetts, he did sign healthcare reform at the state level, and when he talks family values and morality he is one of the few republicans who mean it

This has been a very depressing trend: is it possible to keep getting worse?

Fuck the lesser evil, vote for the greater good

You only vote at the midterm?