The end of the road…abandon all hope yee who enter…
This election will go down in history as one of the weirdest times in American history. There are no more October surprises left. In the past week, you couldn’t swing a dead cat (no, it was not eaten by a Haitian) without hitting some weird news story.
One of the candidates, in a speech that reeked of banana republic politics, openly fantasized about his opponents being “shot in the face” by a firing squad. The same candidate simulated felatio in a rally and told women he’ll protect them, “whether they like it or not.” The opposing candidate called for calm and peace in the face of division. She promised to work with her opponents, not jail them.
People lost their minds all over the country. A friend of mine witnessed a man march down on her street yesterday, stop at every every house with a political sign, raise his fist in the air and scream, “Trump!” She was terrified to call the police, because then he’d know she did it.
This is the kind of America we live in. This is what Trump enabled.
When I was growing up in Michigan, my middle school was on a small lake. We had an hour for lunch, and sometimes kids wanted to eat at this pizza joint downtown. To get to the pizza joint in the winter, kids would walk across the frozen lake. One…
