Something unusual happened to me the other night. After publishing the Morning Briefing at around 3 AM EDT, I was exhausted and couldn’t wait to get to sleep. I began drifting off rather quickly, but then my meandering brain began to think about the upcoming election. I was then wide awake, pondering the consequences of a Kamala Harris presidency.
It was odd for a couple of reasons. The first is that I don’t think or talk about politics when I’m done with work. It’s as if there is a shut-off valve in my brain for that. It’s been that way for a long time. The second is that, on the rare occasions that a thought about politics hits me during the off hours, it doesn’t bother me to the point of sleeplessness. It flits about my brain for a few moments, then it’s gone.
This election is different though, isn’t it? Even a mostly dead inside guy like me can still be hit with the occasional pang of existential dread. My preferred mechanisms for powering through them still work, it’s just that I have to use them more often, especially now that we are in the homestretch leading up to Election Day.
There is a heaviness to politics in the best of times. The deep divide that mainstream media hacks like to portray as unique to the Trump years has actually been plaguing us since the turn of the century. Bush vs. Gore in 2000 turned the Democrats into election deniers and got them more focused than ever on what kind of un-American anomalies they could brew up in their election interference witches cauldron. […]
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