Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Election Patience is a Virtue

 The 2020 Election is over. Well sort of. Judges ordering the Head of the Postal Service to report to court wanting to know why ballots were not sent. Trump wanting the Supreme Court to intervene meanwhile in Pennsylvania votes won't be counted till four days after election day. Yes patience is a virtue especially in this election. THIS ELECTION IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WORST HEALTH PANDEMIC NOT SEEN SINCE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.  So we had most of the population participating with mail in ballots or ballots sent directly to ballot boxes that has never been done before in history. It takes time to count all those ballots. Trump is that petulant child with no patience to do things efficiently or accurately. He wants it all his way or the highway. 

If he was a educated person he should learn from history where there were other elections that took long times to determine the winner. In the 19th century before the telegraph was invented  elections would take days for word to even spread that someone had won. In 1876 there was a conflict election with Hayes and Tildon that took over three months to resolve ballot problems until it was finally decided that Rutherford Hayes would be President. Many of us remember the year 2000 when George W. Bush was declared the winner of that election by vote of the Supreme Court. Time will determine our next President not drama. Our democracy depends on our collective votes. 

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