Counting Votes

 ON ELECTION NIGHT, after millions of votes had been counted and millions more had not been, President Trump remained true to form and told two outrageous lies, adding to his grand total of more than twenty thousand since becoming president. he said that the election had been rigged, the vote counting was fraudulent, especially is Biden won, and he said that he had actually already won the election, but that the Democrats were stealing it from him. ho hum material in the year of our weird world, twenty twenty. Aside from the apparent contradiction of these two statements, neither has a shred of evidence behind it.One day after the election, Biden appeared to be on the verge of winning,needing only Michigan and Nevada, and being ahead in the counting in both, late in the game. he, Trump, made on statement we should all agree with. In our age of super computers and cell phones, there is no reason under heaven why we shouldn't have all the votes counted the day of the election, and the complete results presented to the public. The solution of course is to simply count all votes as they come in, whether in person or in the mail, and get rid of these stupid laws requiring that mail in votes be counted only on the day of the election. As the counting continued two days after the voting, in one state Trump supporters gathered outside the building and chanted "stop the counting!". In another, they gathered outside the building and chanted "count those votes!". One finds one's self tempted to wish and party that that damned idiots would make up their minds. Imagine the beauty of sitting at home in front of the flat screen, looking at the ballot online, and casting your vote in your pajamas. One minute later on your screen the vote totals are posted, including yours, local and national totals, as all the votes are counted immediately. All one would require is a password to vote, membership in Facebook would not be necessary.Our voting methods are lagging behind our technological capabilities. Voter education is also lagging. it continues to amaze how many millions of Americans vote for candidates who are underwritten by billionaires, or candidates who themselves are billionaires. Billionaires never have, and never will have the interests of America's poor people and working poor people in mind.  The Republican party, the white conservative Christian party, is narrowly focused on the welfare of the wealthy, and yet, tens of millions of not so wealthy duped people vote for them, because of abortion and gun control. We had four years of Trump because we deserve nothing better. And we deserve nothing better than being puppets to our corporate masters, which we are, and, so it seems, shall long remain.