Winning

By the time this is published the election will be over. I pray this election is sufficiently lopsided that there aren’t any arguments about who won. History does give me some hope. We’ve had incredibly nasty elections in the past, worse in ways than this one was. Sometimes we haven’t elected the best candidate, and yet we survive. Democracy is messy but it is superior to all other forms of government. There may be violence, but I hope not. Violence is never a rational answer to conflicts. Some folks don’t like it, but the heart and soul of a democracy is compromise. When adults of reasonable...