Late tonight. It's Guy Fawkes Night and we've been out at a display - and following our usual rituals.
USA - you have my sympathy.
I will never understand how any woman, LGBT person, African-American, Hispanic person, or low-paid working-class person can vote for that bunch of self-serving, greedy, misogynistic, ignorant, bigoted, racists, who have sold their souls to big business, and who have the nerve to call themselves by the name that once belonged to a political party that stood for something. Something grand. But, apparently, vote they do, in their tens of thousands
No, it's not my country. But, yes, I'm entitled to an opinion, because the things that the climate-change denying, GMO promoting, Creationist, war-mongers will do will affect the rest of the world. When America sneezes Europe catches a cold.
The bunch of political self-servers who have sat in Congress and for the past six years blocked every attempt to better the lives of millions of citizens. Refused to pay women a fair wage. Refused help for returning military personnel. Closed women's health programmes. Decimated schools. And favoured their rich bosses with bigger tax-cuts for shipping jobs and funds overseas. They may be celebrating their gains today but - guess what - the president is still black. And nothing will ever convince me that that isn't the chief problem they have with him.
Goodnight and may your God/s go with you
Ze
