Hello there fellow ‘garbage’ people, fellow ‘Nazis,’ fellow Trump supporters. A large group of the neurotic and psychotic (plus their enablers) have been calling us these names lately.
In a reasonable society many of these name-callers would be inpatients in mental hospitals, under the stern-but-therapeutic care of Nurse Ratchet and her order-enforcing clones. We don’t live in a reasonable society.
You have a week remaining in which you can cast a vote for a return to reasonableness, or you can endorse the anything-peculiar-goes status quo. If enough of us vote for the reasonable, maybe we can increase its presence in our society.
I write this alongside the Aloha Tower in Honolulu harbor. It is just after 9 a.m. local time, the sun is shining and the humid air feels silky. Tough duty, but someone has to do it, why not me? By the time we know the election result our ship will be somewhere in either Polynesia or Melanesia, probably the latter.
