A Final Statement and Plea Before a Election Day 2017

The fact that this election is a close contest is at once a sad testimony to the Democratic establishment's decision to steadfastly hold onto the status quo by nominating the only candidate sufficiently unpopular (if not downright hated) to actually lose to a person as vile and loathsome as Donald Trump while simultaneously an indictment of a political system in desperately dire need of a paradigm shifting change of direction. It is my fervent hope that we will survive this state of turmoil, division, and collective confusion only to reemerge at a time in the not too distant future to reclaim, reassert, and rediscover our shared and common humanity.