While You Were Watching the Election...
Half a world away, in Fukuoka, Japan -- certainly the foreign country that set the whole "Rust Belt" thing in motion in this one forty years ago -- a giant sinkhole appeared. If that's not an apt metaphor for the day, I don't know what is.
Meanwhile, like a lot of people, I'm going to spend a lot of time in the coming weeks trying to digest what happened today. Perhaps I'll find tighter metaphors. Hopefully I'll find lessons. Hopefully I can dissuade others from attempting to take away the wrong lessons from this.
There's plenty of evidence that things are still moving forward, just more slowly. For example, Nevada, a state that has heretofore had some of the strictest drug laws in the country, just passed a recreational marijuana bill. Clinton won Nevada. The Nevada Senate seat being vacated by retirement stayed Democratic. In short, Nevada is starting to look like the rest of the Pacific Time Zone.
I have a lot more to say on the subject, but it's late and I want more data. Stay tuned....
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