I was stunned by the behavior of the AG’s, what little I understood of it. It still stuns me to see that list. I’m not even sure what to make of it. Unprofessional is the least of it. Frightening.

I hope you won’t mind if I post a poem here. My friend sang with the Pioneer Valley Symphony last Saturday. They raised up pieces by POC, excellent music that is largely unknown because of prejudice. Our choir is doing that as well. Beautiful stuff, and not all idiomatic. Some great baroque, for example. This poem was published in the program, and it seemed perfect for this election. Racism is certainly on the ballot, if only as a vital subset of human dignity.

[I don’t know if this poem is under copyright.]

Plain-Chant for America

For the dream unfinished, out of which we came, we stand
together while a hemisphere darkens and the nations flame!
Our earth has been hallowed by death for freedom;
One walls have been hallowed by freedom’s thought.
Concord, Valley Forge, Harpers Ferry light up with their flares our
sky of doubt.

We fear tyranny as our hidden enemy;
The black shirt cruelty, the goose-step mind.
No dark signs close the doors of our speaking.
No bayonets bar the doors to our prayers.
No gun butts shadow our children’s eye.
Our earth, our earth has been hallowed with death for freedom!
Our walls have been hallowed with freedom’s thought.

If we have failed. lynchings in Georgia, justice in Massachusetts
undone, the bloody fields of South Chicago!
Still a voice from the bruised and the battered speaks out in the
light of a free sun, saying, “Tell them again, say it, America;
Say it again, till it splits their ears;
Freedom is salt in our blood and its bone shape;
If freedom fails, we’ll fight for more freedom!”

This is the land, and these are the years!
When freedom’s a whisper above their ashes,
An obsolete word, cut on their graves.
When the mind has yielded its last resistance,
and the last free flag is under the waves,
Let them remember that here on the Western horizon
a star once acclaimed has not set;
And the strength of a hope, and the shape of a vision
died for and sung for and fought for and worked for, is living yet.
Our earth has been hallowed by death for freedom;
Our walls have been hallowed by freedom’s thought.
Tell them America! Say it again!
Our star once acclaimed will not wane!

-Katherine Garrison Chapin

Tomorrow Americans go to vote. It is truly hoped the Democrats win. If the republicans win, things might not turn out so well and if there is violence I for one am not looking forward to it. If one country has violence it frequently spills over to other countries sitting on the border and most of us in Canada just aren’t ready for it or the refugees.

Having lived in Canada for over 70 years, I’ve watched American politics for some time. Never thought things would get this bad in the U.S.A. Of coursse we in Canada have a new premier in Alberta and many of us no longer laugh at american politicians. She’s bad shit crazy.

good luck tomorrow. Not only do we need a democracy south of the Canadian border, Americans need it to, as does the rest of the world, and I still want to go to Vegas one more time

One correction: Daniel Cameron’s term as Kentucky’s Attorney General ends in 2023, not 2024. He was elected in 2019.

However, he has already announced that he’s running for Governor in 2023, and has already been endorsed for that race by Donald Trump.

Of course, after noting his role with the RAGA robocall, Kentucky’s news media has been remarkably silent since. The lack of investigation into this matter by both local and national news media is depressing as hell.

Side note but related:
My Ohio precinct is looking like breaking over 50% voter turn out.

Record turnout.