Well, People.
In a couple of days it will be a whole new country. Stability or chaos.
Those are the choices.
I assume you’ve all done what you had to do. Voted.
I guess we’ll eventually adapt to whatever happens. I hope it’s adjusting to new possibilities of tolerance, fairness, justice and democracy.
I will never fully understand how some people get so brain-addled as to justify and/or rationalize the insanity of a thoroughly unstable grifting candidate for any kind of office. Whether it’s pseudo-libertarian nihilistic chaos junkies or tear-it-all-down lefties or emotionally broken trauma survivors who only know angry entitlement and vengeance. I get the Christians. I get the straight-up fascists.
I don’t get the people I know personally who think it’s a good direction for the country.
I assume it’s because of shallowness, disengagement. Not really understanding the existential threat to our system. Thinking it’s just another election or that he really doesn’t mean what he says. Or some other complex, conspiratorial bullshit.
The horrors possible of even the first week of a Trump presidency could destabilize the culture, the economy and thousands of lives of people of color, LGBTQ people, immigrants, people who believe in tolerance, empathy and the democratic idea. Destabilize for good.
They are talking annihilation. Whether they mean it or not the effect is annihilating. When people become afraid to speak or shout or protest or have contrary ideas or to be themselves the impact is the same. You can only hope that they won’t start killing to make an example to those who think or believe differently.
I know it sounds extreme and I am not freaking out. I am rational. I see what is here and what could be coming.
It is not a stretch. We are spoiled with distractions. We are self-centered in our small lives.
But the worst of humanity and civilization has happened over and over all over the world for centuries. Even here.
Why not here right now?
Just vote. Speak out. It matters.
Today I talk to comedian Mo Mandel. Thursday I talk to comedian Robby Hoffman. Great talks.
Enjoy!
Boomer, Monkey and LaFonda live!
Love,
Maron
