Despite having seen every election since 1776, I have no knowledge of what will happen tomorrow. Polls, reports, statistics, news stories, surveys, tweets, headlines, gossip — none of it helps me know. At least not any more. We’re seeing Duterte in the Philippines, Xi Jinping in China, Erdogan in Turkey, Putin in Russia, and recently Berlusconi in Italy, Sarkozy in France, Ahmadinejad in Iran, etc., etc. As the center cannot hold comes the wave of the authoritarian. You can feel it welling up. I just have faith America is not going to go there. ‘When knowledge fails faith provides a kind of possession or presence of what cannot be possessed by knowledge.’ I say keep the faith and we shall see what our country is meant to be. Peace.
