Where The Election Leaves Our Planet
by Richard Conniff
I can’t find words yet for what American voters who cast their ballots yesterday could possibly have been thinking about so many issues, including at the most fundamental level, the fate of the Earth.
With apologies, this piece by Minnesota Star Tribune cartoonist Steve Sack seems to sum it up:
For the first time since infancy I have nothing to say. At least I have nothing helpful or constructive. I am filled with a blinding rage and also terror. They voted for cheaper gas and groceries and fewer brown people and a return to the Middle Ages. The ones who got him elected in 2016 deserve the blame. He would have faded from view by now. Share the blame with the media which recklessly relied on his outrageous words and actions to sell their paper and get their hits. And then the voters, most of whom are just ignorant but many who are as base and vile as he. Shared hated is a powerful glue. And that turns into cement when you add in fear. This is so much worse than 2016 and at the time I thought nothing could be.
It is hard to believe.