Here's to 2026
Well, my friends, this disastrous year is at an end. As we all know, it didn't have to be like this. What we're going through right now was a choice. A choice that 77 million voters made. A choice that 90 million voters made by not choosing. And now listen to the wails and the gnashing of teeth. Now see garments rent and hair pulled out. Now see those who chose this in one way or another running around in panic, asking for someone to save them. Of course, they were always their own saviors. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people on social media castigate us for "vote shaming". It seems that no one has any agency save for Democratic politicians. Not Republican. Not voters. Not non-voters. Not those who cast a desultory vote for the "lesser of two evils". As that skinny Black community organizer said, the most powerful person in any democracy is the citizen. And yet so many of us relinquish that power. Why do we do this? Because, as a superhe...
