Voting

EVENTUALLY, some fine day, we'll resume hugging, kissing, and shaking hands, but for a time, we'll be paranoid and extremely hygienic. As more corona type viruses infect the future world, the world will, as it has long done with influenza, accept viral pandemics as a way of life, a fact of life, and will develop and encourage vaccinations, and go about our business as usual, as we Americans do with the flu, thirty thousand flu deaths per year be damned. And when we are finished hugging, kissing, and being considerate and kind to each other in celebration of the vanquishing of Covid 19, we will return to our usual, rude, dismissive ways. We will, however, belatedly change the way we vote. We will install a more reasonable, practical system, to mitigate inconvenience and contagion and long lines at the ballot box, but we will do so only over the kicking, screaming, dead bodies of Republicans. We will begin voting by telephone, computer, and snail mail, as we already do to a certain degree. It is the only way to go. It is the future. republicans want fewer people to vote, Democrats want more.Elitism versus egalitarianism. Hamilton versus Jefferson. The fight has already begun, and it will end with an expanded, more inclusive democracy. It will also give greater voice to we the poor people, and might very well, as some republicans have predicted, guarantee that no Republican ever wins a national election again, because, when push come to shove, America is a progressive country, with many more people served by the ideals of Democrats than republicans. Long live the future.