Post November 8 America

Elections Are Over

The elections are over. It is over for you yet? Are you really glad that it is? Are you a nervous wreck? Everyone is.

Wait, did you participate in the elections? Did you actually vote?

Did you get yourself well-informed enough to have weighed all your options? Did you get to find out who was running in what position? Did you actually read about the individual measures and propositions and on what they were really about?

Can you honestly say that you voted in good conscience?

Post Election Question

Anyway, whatever your answers are, there is just this one last question that each of us must ask ourselves.

Am I proud of the way I acted throughout this election process? And am I proud of what I'm doing right now?

Have you acted civilly, have you been respectful of other people's opinions or of their personal stand on the issues that were involved?

Are you able to look yourself in the mirror and tell yourself that you showed dignity and that you were honest, you didn't steal or destroy other people's property, and you didn't spread half-truths, instigate violence, hurl insults and call anyone names that if anyone else said about you, you'd see red and take them behind the gym bleachers?

Can you honestly say and tell your children's children that you took the high road? Or did you just convince yourself that 'the end justifies the means'?

And finally can you live with the results of the decisions you have made?

Moving Forward

The elections are over. It was long and bitterly fought. Today, America is divided in half and we need to accept that. What ever side of the divide we are in, we need to work together and respect each other to allow the healing to begin.

Election 2016: November 8, Go Out and Vote!

This election is definitely one for the record books.

Not only is California having a record number of registered voters, it also has a record number of propositions on the ballot and a record setting 224 page Voter Information Guide.

On the national level, no other time in recent memory are the American people so deeply divided as to what they stand for in the issues being decided as well as what's at stake.

Choose Your Poison

This is also the election year where the top two Presidential candidates are so much hated, so unpopular, so much maligned, and have so many criminal allegations against them, it's unprecendented if not downright unbelievable. The issues and the personalities involved have even divided friends and families.

It is so bad, many well known personalities have vowed to do unthinkable things and spend all their money in support of their candidate or to move out of  the country if the results don't go their way.

But the common folks just want to get all this over with and move on, some still live with or have gone back to live with their parents, many don't have a place to lay their heads for the night or pay their bills and loans and most can hardly find enough money to buy the groceries to last them until their next check.

Lots of people have already voted by mail and through early voting, but the bulk of the voters will have 7 AM until 8 PM on Tuesday, November 8th.

Whichever side of the fence you belong to in all the issues, do your assignment, prepare your sample ballots and go out and vote!

Remember, still no ballot selfies in California.