7 days left until the election (#4287)

     Okay, we are at one week now before the election. Over 64 million of us have already voted in the early period with several days left for early voting. I had hoped we would get to 100 million early votes but that isn't looking possible as of this moment. Yet the 64 million votes already cast is about 6 million more than all pre election day votes cast in 2016. We may get to around 80 million early votes cast and that would be really cool. The pandemic has changed our habits for voting that is for sure but the mess that trump has wrought has also invigorated our electorate to turn out in far greater percentages than any other normal voting cycle.
     Joe Biden, our democratic candidate, is a good man with good policies going forward but the real underlying motivation for the many of us is to see the monster that is trump defeated in such a way as to make no doubt about how we feel about him. He has done so much to harm our society yet he doesn't seem to understand that. He is at loggerheads to figure out why we all don't just prostrate and sing hallelujahs at him. So the depth and distance of his misunderstanding of our American experiences is breathtakingly deep and long. It is like he is devoid of the ability to see beyond his own mirror. Along with his lack of understanding is his own need for adulation.
     We have had enough of all of it and his 15 minutes of fame is about to find the door. I wish it were a metaphorical 15 minutes instead of the grueling long 4 years that has been so painfully smothering. He is still fighting though to keep his appointed presidency and is not beneath cheating, stealing, and lying to make it happen. His attempts to negate our votes so that he can declare himself the winner with the help of his newly installed 6-3 conservative advantage on the supreme court is his last desperate strategy. But if like is happening now that we come out and vote like our blue wave election has been expected then his pleas for a false redress will not be able to withstand our tsunami of votes.