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RIPTIDE





 "It can sweep the strongest swimmer out to sea"

Twenty four hours and the countdown begins to better times:

Better health

Better economy

Better culture

More civility

More truth

More empathy

The tide has turned and the detritus of four years is caught in a blue rip that can't be stopped.

This election started over a year ago, day after day of accusations, exaggerations, and conspiracy theories. 

The electorate is just plain exhausted and needs a coffee break, if not a martini break, shaken not stirred.

Winter COVID is here, lurking in places it hadn't gone before, making us sick, hospitalizing us, killing us in numbers we hadn't thought possible.

The first order of business during the first hundred days is to get COVID under control so that we can return to work without fear of contamination and resume some degree of normalcy in our daily life.

Your health and the health of your fellow Americans is the fundamental requirement of a strong economy and a normal life.

This election, to borrow a term from a friend, has been "ugly". No matter how you spin it, you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig.

Get out and VOTE tomorrow, your future depends on it!  


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