…from the desk of R.E. Vanella.
So here’s what happened. I did go to the pub. That’s where I go for a pint on the way home from the office almost every day. I was near the bottom of my second and getting ready to split. Guy walks in and sits down at bar and orders a club soda with a dash of bitters. His voice is deep, throaty, like a man who makes his living doing voice overs for big budget sci-fi films. In a world where a lunatic clown cons a few small rural villages that were politically beneficial and becomes the man-child king…
Also, adding Angostura bitters is a great order. Classy. I generally take two dashes of it in ginger ale. Cuts the sweetness. But club soda makes sense to me.
So I pay the check and get ready to say, “hey, you’re Al, yeah? Look, I’m standing down.”
Before I speak, he says, “you Rob?”
Good people of the Internet you may consider the hatchet buried. Al bought me a third and we talked it out. As many of you have said, we really are all on the same team here. Testosterone is nasty business. I still haven’t figured how to handle it.
Anyhow, I’ll spare you the boring bits. Just know this. Whatever happens here on the world-wide-web we need to stick together. This Trump thing looks bad already and we aren’t even a week in. I know it doesn’t always look like it, but we are unified in this. Keep going out in street. Keep fighting. Risking hyperbole I’ll say this may be the most important political movement of our time. At the end of each day please just consider what you did to resist that day and what you can do tomorrow.
That’s the only thing that matters. Sara was right. Pathological male ego got us into this situation. It’s probably a good idea to be a little more cognizant of this fact before exacerbating the problem. (I’m giving this advice to myself most of all.)
Moral of the story is, ok, we suck. That seems pretty clear. However, Al and I were brave enough to go out in the world and face it. Get to the gist of it and reaffirm our commitment to resist. It was unseemly here yesterday and for that I do humbly apologize. Distasteful trash. No excuse.
So continue phoning our representatives. Push this Hansen character to stake a real claim instead of simply selling the bland alternative. Support the local organizations like the Network and Delaware United. Get on record in public. Don’t waste time being overly critical of each other. It really is a waste of time and it takes one to know one.
Al and I are in. Get on board. Stay on board. This is not a fad. Solidarity. REV.