About a week to go.

 There's about a week to go before the election. Ive voted for the last 40 years in all different types of elections. Ive even run for local office myself and won. If there's one thing Ive learned its that its never as dire as the losing side predicts afterwords. Until now. Given a worst case scenario when the republican seize control of the house and the senate, the less than favorable presidential numbers, there is the real chance we could be screwed like permanently. 

We saw during the trump presidency, while everyone was making orange jokes and commenting on everything from his lack of class and sophistication to what can only be described as fondling his daughter, the making fun of the disabled ....there are far too many to name, he was naming conservative judges. The same people he named came before the senate panel and lied, lied and lied again about very important things such as a woman's right to choose. Most disappointingly they were confirmed and the same people they lied to sat back and clutched their pearls yelling "they lied" and were completely powerless to do anything about it. 

The candidate's lie and whats disheartening is the nonchalance in how they do it. As if no one will fact check them, they tell whoppers worthy of the burger King himself Donald Trump. The facts are checked but by them the 30 second attention span of the average American has moved on and the lie becomes truth. Facts are twisted or simply made up and are accepted by a people addicted to instant gratification. Go out to eat...look around the room and see how many people are using their phones for everything but phone calls. Faster phones..more memory ..faster connections..got to have the information as it happens..and the media plays along. The news cycle has gone from days or weeks to minutes. Trump knew this and I'll give him credit for it..when some article came out about him being caught doing something, he would do something or say something crazy just to distract the media and us. He would do this knowing it would disappear very quickly. Its the same with these candidates. Hershel Walker has got a whole bunch of stuff in his past. Lying about his achievements, the abortions he's supposedly payed for then campaigned as pro life. Its a fairly long list..but the voters dont seem to care. Oz, the same sort of story..against John Fetterman who recently had a stroke and suffered through a difficult debate with Oz. I dont think for a moment Oz knows a thing about Pennsylvania or politics and it would be a grave mistake to elect him. The question they should be asking is Oz, a better man than Fetterman was before?..He will after all improve and there's a hell of a lot more to being a senator than standing at a poduim debating. Anyone who watches C-Span should know that.  

We'll see what happens and on Wednesday morning we will know the course of our country for the next 2 -6 years. Lets hope for the best and VOTE!