Flutterby™! : A few thoughts on the results of the election

Following the nominations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to be the presidential candidate nominees of their respective parties, I repeatedly said that there were discussions on issues that I couldn't have until after the election.

I did not expect to write this post from this perspective. I expected that I'd be writing this with Hillary Clinton elected as United States President. Yes, that adds a couple more issues to this list, but had Hillary Clinton been nominated, we would...

Still be fighting against huge encroachments on the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Amendments to to the Constitution.

Still be trying to fix a foreign policy which has continued to kill hundreds of thousands of innocents and bystanders and generate more enemies than friends.

Still be trying to untangle our national infrastructure policy from a racist mess that has encouraged the economics that have led to our rural middle class being so angry.

Still be working on the proliferation of extrajudicial executions, whether those are at the international level or the local level.

Still be trying to fix healthcare.

And at a local level, my favored candidate lost by less than 200 votes. Charlene and I are talking right now about "is there more issues education we could do?" If there's one thing this election has done, it's to solidly re-entrench my feeling that we need better issues education (and I include myself learning more in that). So let's roll up our sleeves and carry on.