Domo arigato and forward!

Well, we didn't have to go to Tokyo this year to have Barack Obama elected. This time it was only to Lake Arrowhead where we were ecstatic when CNN called the election for our President. Four years ago we were in the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Tokyo for my birthday treat watching CNN so superstition being what it is - like someone playing basketball as an election tradition - we could not be at home in Valencia as we were in the Bush re-election disaster, even though our home has our fantastic children there. So good news all throughout especially the female power now elected; Maine, Maryland, Washington and Minnesota marriage equality. It is still frigin' bizarre that it is 2012 and we still have these topics as "issues" in our supposed modern society. And there was actually 23% of the LGBT population that voted for Romney? What!?!?!?! And did anyone see Karl Rove call out his own Fox for prematurely, he thought, calling Ohio? Delicious television I must say. One of the best essays or posts came from Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Beast which I shall post here. God bless the World. 6 Nov 2012 08:00 PM Live-Blogging Election Night Screen shot 2012-11-07 at 12.18.13 AM 12.27 am. It's been a long long slog these past five years of backing the skinny guy with the funny name. But this election, to my mind, is immensely more important than the breakthrough of 2008, after the catastrophe of Bush-Cheney. What it has done is rip open the complete epistemic closure on the Republican right about what America now is. It has revealed that Fox News, Drudge, and the rest have been engaged in a massive propaganda campaign to create an alternative reality and get the rest of us to go along. But this president has never been a radical; he has always been a moderate; he has been immensely skilled at foreign policy, ended one war and won another, killed Osama bin Laden and saved the American auto industry, deflected a Second Great Depression and initated universal access to healthcare. He has presided over a civil rights revolution and the beginning of the end of prohibition of marijuana. He has created the new and durable coalition that was once Karl Rove's dream. Americans saw this. They were not fooled. And they made the right call, as they usually do. What was defeated tonight was not just Romney, a hollow cynic, but a whole mountain of mendacity and delusion. That sound you hear is the cognitive dissonance ringing in the ears of ideologues and cynics. Any true conservative longs for that sound, the sound of reality arriving to pierce through fantasy and fanaticism. We are the ones we have been waiting for. And now we have entrenched it deeply in the history of America and the world. That matters. May the next four years make it matter even more.