So I listened just now to Richard Wolff - on with Lawrence - and here is what he said [View all]

[Mira]

"If you are in a tight election
and then something happens that your opponent is getting 78 percent approval for his behavior a few days before the election
that is what can be called a political disaster."

My own fears of the election's outcome are subsiding a bit. In my heart I have been expecting an unexpected landslide, but I'm old enough to know that godawful things can happen on election night.
(My memory goes to 2000. My grandson was 8 and sitting in the kitchen cabinet corner at 2 am staring at the little TV we were huddled around. On the screen was Bush / Gore, equal numbers. He looked up, wide eyed and said: "And I thought this was going to be boring.&quot

After I heard Richard Wolff whom I admire a lot say that, and my spirits rose a bit, I got an email to donate again.
So I did.

Then I started to look at my TV again and saw Chris Christie and Obama together and remembered something about my own life.

Once, after a dreadful divorce I was slaving away in my basement, self- employed, for unbearable hours for unbearable lengths of time. I was carrying a load that was, for my life situation, unsustainable.
Then my brother showed up, and offered a ray of light of relief for a short while, and I absolutely lost it. The load was shared. The burden not just mine.
I collapsed in tears, where Chris Christie collapsed in relief that translated into brotherhood.

It's been a day where much of my mental energy has gone to think about those who suffer.
I can't fathom being in NYCity in the dark. But I do know renewal comes, is at hand, and I do know that as our country struggles through a disaster of this magnitude we are in hands that are calm, hold the reign, and have our collective best interest at heart.

I don't know if I've actually free- associated like this before, on this board.
But while I'm at it, let me share with you that I visualize the private sector in charge of this monumental effort in so many devastated areas, and I challenge you to imagine the depth of my gratitude there still is "big" government in my beloved US of A.