A Brief Existential Rumination On Election Day

Democracy is a good kind of frustrating

One core tragedy of democracy is that it means sharing power with people who are radically different than me. As I write this people are lining up to the polls and many of those people experience the world in ways that are baffling and incomprehensible to someone like me - they hate what I love and love what I hate, they see people like me and my way of…