Remember what kind of people they are:
- They came in reacting to substance abuse in their midst, reacting like they were in denial then.
- They left power in denial to a life-threatening illness.
This not hallmark of people with whom one could negotiate or govern. Their nihilism shows that they have been thoroughly saturated by the oligarchs' program of reducing a citizens' understanding if and a belief in government as both a verb and noun. They scorn commonwealth. Their program is Every Man for Himself now and for the foreseeable future.
Villainizing them is one thing. For those unlike them who miss that they are a continuing danger to any state in North America that they may be a national of is folly.
The day is filled with a romance for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. When they get to work, the results of their election will be different. Any implied promise that a Biden Administration that is imagined today will meet with an opposition by a Congress that is indifferent at best.
Biden is the better man for the short term. Once the pandemic has been stopped, we'll be reminded that a 40+% deplorable electorate is adverse to good things: healthcare, education, housing, human and civil rights. People who scorn civic engagement and replace it with puerile taunting can't be shamed to negotiate in good faith often, if ever.
Hope that you enjoyed that cold shower.
