Trust.

I started writing a lengthy blog post about trust and my lack there of it around the midterm elections. I was going to get into a deep analysis of why I feel this way. I stopped writing and subsequently deleted that post because it was depressing me. Here’s my deal: I do not trust that U.S. citizens will make the sane choices for the midterm elections on Tuesday. I know what polls say, but polls haven’t been on target in years. And even if U.S. citizens were to make sane choices in Tuesday’s elections, I know it’s going to be a long, exhausting slog to get through the results and get them certified because when the Republicans lose, they claim the election system is rigged and start throwing around an exhausting number of lawsuits. (Never mind we didn’t have election rigging issues in 2024, because Republicans allegedly won, of course). The country has been off-kilter since Gore-Bush was decided by the Supreme Country in 2000 and 9/11 pushed it over the cliff. Social media algorithms…