One More Day

18 months.  That's how long this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad election cycle has taken. That's 18 months too long for me.  Between the mud-slinging, and the anger, the threats and the hate, the empty promises and the lies, I just can't take any more of it. Tomorrow it finally comes to an end, which is simultaneously a good thing and a terrifying thing.

Even though, Trump is behind in the polls, I can't help but wonder "what if?"  I'd like to agree with the saner heads that truly believe he won't win.  But just a few months ago I watched saner heads in England say that Brexit would never pass, and yet the morning after the vote thousands of people who "just wanted a change" voted the unthinkable into existence. That's the scariest part to me. Second scariest is the argument I heard just a few days ago - since Trump is so divisive, many people are telling their families and friends that they're not voting for him, when in fact they are. What does that mean to the exit polls? Don't you think these same people may be lying to the pollsters as well?

So very, very scary!

For better or worse, Wednesday isn't going to be fabulous.  We're either stuck with someone who's been compared to Hitler or we've elected the more rational and saner, but still not perfect, choice.  None of the hope we had in 2008 is there.  None of the feeling of change. None of the excitement around a candidate that will do something amazing.  We just want the whole darn election thing to end.

And if it does end on the wrong side of history - as I fear it may - I have my escape plan all ready.  Most are headed to Canada or England if Trump wins.  Both are fabulous choices - most especially England.  Though I'd like to wait until they get this whole Brexit thing worked out, before making it my permanent home.  Until that time, I'm off to New Zealand to live in the Shire.  I'm claiming a hobbit hole as mine, and I'll live out my days cooking and crafting with the good and kind people of New Zealand.  

You see, kindness and goodness and openness, that's what I'm looking for. And if Trump wins, it might take me all the way to New Zealand to find it again.