Voting

ON FACEBOOK, in response to the question of whether I had voted early, I responded that indeed I had, early, and often. Aside from the fact that I was making an obvious joke, some too serious liberal told me that I should not have said "often", because ("coz") by so doing I was "playing into the hands" of MAGA folk. Instead of answering, I posted an emoticon depicting the shutting of my big mouth, and then another, depicting a rolling of the (my) eyes, which I intended as an expression of ridicule of the suggestion not that my comment had been unwise, but that I was playing into someone's strategic, ideological hands, stoking flames. I heard, read nothing further. The exchange was, apparently, complete. In fact, playing into MAGA hands was precisely my intent. Stir the pot a bit. Lookit. If Kamala wins there will be a civil war, or something closely resembling one, vote joke or no vote joke. What I say has little bearing on this dreadful circumstance, since Trump and his basket of deplorable insurrectionist mobsters is already foaming and forming at the gate, foaming at the mouth, ready to spring into action and pounce at the first indication of a Trump electoral loss. And spring and pounce it surely will. Nobody cares, nor needs to care, what I think, say, or do, about anything, including our roiling American body politic. As for me, I, like Neil Diamond sang, am "like a man with a tiger outside of his gate", who "not only could'n't relax but could'n't relate." Safely so ensconced I sit, awaiting the election results like everyone else, willing to come out and engage, tiger or no tiger, but preferring not to. My voting often reference was quite obviously a humorously intended reference to the enduring Trump mob of gangsters and their continuing outlandish accusations of election theft, then and now, which I in fact find not only deplorable, but, verily, garbage. As for Hillary Clinton's infamous "basket of deplorables' comment in 2016 which probably cost her political capital and votes; she, in my humble opinion (imho) was, at the beginning, middle, and end of the verbal scandal, was in fact, quite right. As I recall, she made no retraction, nor, imho, should she have. And now lame duck president Biden clearly referred to Trump's supporters, in toto, as a (presumably immense) floating pile of garbage, then, under pressure, took it back by "clarifying" it, which, imho, he should not have nor need have. After all, at this point, what's he got to lose? And why not stick to the truth, to what he clearly meant and intended? After all, when Der Trumpster, his mind ever in the proverbial dumpster, referred to beautiful lovely Puerto Rico as a "floating pile of garbage", did he not, as they say in John Grisham novels and television law dramas, "open the door"? This, aside from the simple geological fact that neither Puerto Rico nor any other island "floats". But how can we expect a person who claims that George Washington captured airports, windmills cause cancer and psychiatric distress among whales, and that Italy and the United States have been allies for thousands of years be expected to understand basic geological reality? But show me a Trump supporting evangelical Christian who refuses to consign folks with religious differences or opposition to Trump to hell, and a Trump supporter who openly acknowledges that Trump's great election lie of twenty twenty was indeed a lie,and that the subsequent well planned and orchestrated violent and nearly succesful insurrection was a terrible idea, and maybe, just maybe, I will cease to refer to the MAGA movement as a basket of deplorable pile of garbage, or whatever. Maybe, but don't count on it.