The Worst Election Week Ever.

So, this is what it feels like to suddenly wake up in a Dark Age. I'd always wondered. (Or, at least I'd wondered for a long time, since taking a college course on Dark Ages.) Which is much different from saying that I actually wished for it to happen.

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One thing particularly irritating about it: last November, my brother who happens to have recently lived in a Red State called me to argue, to inform me, to attempt to convince me that the Masschusetts Supreme Court had probably just thrown the election the Republicans. Nonsense, I said; besides, they were only interpreting our Constitution, and it was a good decision, and after all, Republicans most of all recognize that states have rights. My brother and I ended up wondering whether we were living on the same planet.

So the irritating thing is that it looks like he was correct: so far the exit poll results make it seem that despite the fact that the country is involved in a senseless war where people are dying, this wedge issue, which is not even a federal matter, pushed the Presidential election.