What a Writer Does When Her Head is About to Explode

 

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She writes about it.

And that’s what this post is about today. The election. I swear the top my head is about to blow off. I know I’m not alone in this, and so many great journalists and commentators have been tackling the election mess I didn’t think I needed to add my two cents, and besides I usually try to keep politics out of my work. But my work is about what I value and care about and think and feel, so I’ve got to write about this.

Hillary Clinton is wonderful. I love her. She’s going to make a great president. She’s smart, she’s tough, she’s steady and prepared, she has a vision for this country, she cares about women’s health issues and kids and families and minorities. Yes, she’s made mistakes, got hawkish, erred on the whole privacy thing, and the damn emails, and yes, she is a politician – but isn’t that what the president is supposed to be? A politician? Someone who knows how the government works?

The president of this country should not be someone who’s a bully, a racist, and a misogynist, someone who has the brain of toddler and the morals of a wayward insecure 8th grade boy, someone lacking the attention span to reflect on history and the arts or to read a book. Someone who says that talking (and laughing) about grabbing women by their genitals is “just locker room banter”. (I don’t know men who talk that way in a locker room, do you?) When has it become okay to constantly tell huge lies? To not show your tax returns, to insult war heros, to make fun of disabilities, to threaten and insult minorities – and on and on. We all know the list. (He doesn’t read books. That alone should be enough to blow the top of your head off.)

I’m just venting here and am probably preaching to the choir. But if I could possibly cause one person to decide to vote and not sit out the election in a pissy funk, or to rethink a vote for Trump, I’d invite you over for dinner and talk your ears off.

And if, by any horrible chance, things go south on election day and this country makes the biggest mistake in its history, I invite you to come join me in my literary commune in Mexico.

 

 

Watch what Louis CK has to say about Hillary and the election:

 

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