We Love The Stars Too Fondly

Thank you to everyone who voted!

Thank you to all of the Democrats and liberals who understood the assignment and followed through to be counted!

Thank you to all of the Republicans and conservaties who realized the stakes and considered that they might be on the wrong side of history, and voted this time to change course!

Thank you to all of those who never or rarely vote and just sit out the election, who realized what a mistake that was this time around and made the effort!

Thnk you ao all of the young people who might have been voting for the first time but got it done anyway.

Thank you to everyone who knew that their candidate(s) had a one in a gazillion chance but voted for them anyway.

Thank you for all of the down ballot votes, so not only did blue Senators and Governors get elected, but blue School Board members and Insurance Commissioners and judges.

Thank you to everyone who stood in line for three minutes or three hours because this was really important.

Thank you to the Ukranian forces that have been bombing Russian data centers and taking Elon’s and Putin’s bot misinformation machine offline, making room for the truth!

Thank you to all of the poll site workers who made sure that votes counted!

Thank you to EVERYONE who refused to be intimidated or threatened by the powers that have been trying to shut down voting and destroy our democratic system.

I have – have you? Tomorrow is Election Day across the United States, and it’s been obvious for months and months that this one is critical. It’s not an overstatement to say that the survival of the United States as a democracy hangs in the balance.

I’ve voted – California does an excellent job of keeping you in the loop on your ballot status.

One of my favorite authors, John Scalzi, had this to say on his website today. I don’t have any arguments with any of it. The summary is succinct – “don’t vote for a single fucking Republican.”

That was my number one rule when filling out my ballot. From President all the way down to assistant dogcatcher trainee, I will never, EVER vote for a Republican candidate.

Are the Democrats perfect? Hardly. But we have a two-party system, and voting for a third-party candidate is futile and useless. Not voting at all is de facto a vote to maintain the status quo, and the status quo had us dangerously close to starting World War III while both children and adult die of fully preventable diseases. Bald-faced lies by the hundreds fill every speech and policy from the current Administration, and the President is quite clearly batshit insane. The Supreme Court enables his crimes and the GOP-controlled Congress is not only not even trying to rein the corruption in, they’re actively participating. Treason, bribery, civil rights violations, Hatch Act violations – these are just the start of an extensive list of daily criminal violations.

If it doesn’t stop here, it will be too late. We won’t make it another two years without a return to a rule of law.

Vote like our lives depend on it.