Election day

[mdlbear]

All across my friends list there are people reporting huge lines at the polls, urging their friends to vote, expressing cautious hope. I particularly draw your attention to An Open Letter to the United States of America by telynor. Go vote.

I'm guardedly optimistic, as the phrase goes. The right of all couples to marry in California hangs by a thread. All across the country people are voting with machines that are easy targets for fraud. The election could easily have already been stolen, and the Supreme Court could well let them get away with it again. Even if Obama wins, the outgoing administration is, even now, shredding decades worth of regulations, and has hired a generation of right-wing civil servants who will take decades more to age out.

This mess is not going to be cleaned up in the next four years, and possibly not in my lifetime. Go vote anyway. It's important.