The election feels like a game of Russian Roulette
The arguments on DU between the fretters and the calm minds, well, except for a few trolls it's not a real argument. Because I think all see this election with the same image:
The American public is playing a game of Russian Roulette with itself.
The chamber has a hundred barrels. Maybe 99 are empty; maybe 70 are empty; the odds are in our favor, but it's scary at either end of the scale. And it's maddening that our fellow citizens are so foolish to make us play this game. If we "win" life goes on, and I think stands a good chance of getting better -- demography and time favor humane values, as ugly as turbulence of our journey can be. But if we lose, well, we know what that means.
So the stoics are right; the worrywarts are right; the only people who are wrong are those who don't see the game we're playing -- or worse, are eager to play it.
As neurotic as DU can be, it's an oasis of sanity in all this madness. Thank you all.
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