I Go Pogo!

We await election results. These United States of America and the world at large have suffered a profound indignity over the last four years or so. We have dealt with the insults and ravings of a man undeniably unfit to hold the office. He has defamed the office and the country on a nearly daily basis, in an administration which lies to its constituents hourly and denies even a responsibility to tell the truth. He's not acted alone in his degradation of the country and the principles which have supposed to have guided it for generations, he's had more than enough help from a degenerate Republican Party all to eager too keep a grasp on power by diminishing the citizens' ability to make decisions for themselves. He has been assisted by a media which even when it challenges the affronts, errs by making them all too personal and sensational, and failing to properly inform and educate. This didn't happen overnight, it didn't just happen in the last four years. It's been decades of slow and steady decline as important matters have been trivialized for the sake of ratings or votes. The removal of this man from office will not solve the problems, even months from now when some of the more egregious changes have been corrected, the country will not be whole. The hatred unleashed will take strength and effort to fend off. It will take a generation or possibly two before the country can again aspire to be what it stood on the precipice of becoming only a decade ago, a nation which was willing to move beyond the crimes of its past. We are now aware those crimes are of our present as well. Let's hope for the better at least if not the best. 

I cast my vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris by mail weeks and weeks ago and gotten confirmation of its receipt. So this all important election day I will spend my time with a handsome little Dover reprint tome of some vintage Walt Kelly comic strips from nearly seventy years ago, from 1952 when another presidential was roaring across the nation. I need the smiles and the whimsy of this version of the Okefenokee Swamp. And so today I Go Pogo!

Good luck and good night America.

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