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I don’t need a link anywhere to tell you that the Democrats have the House of Representatives, and there’s a healthy possibility they’ll take the Senate, too, recounts pending.

I have to say, though: I’m kind of excited, despite myself.

Despite myself because everything I know about politics, politicians, and the dominating tenor of the American electorate (historically, anyway) tells me that it’s one evil for another, lesser one; that the species politician (long divorced from its etymon, ‘citizen’) is one categorically unworthy of power; that the executive branch of the United States government has openly and with little resistance done everything it can to consolidate power in itself, and when there has been resistance—in whatever paltry form we might recognize it—this administration has just as openly declared its indifference to The People (democratic opinion having been downgraded to ‘popularity’).

But I see such a seemingly wide and seemingly one-sided shift. I, who had, I will admit, written this one off to rigged voting machines in every state, voter indifference, and electoral fraud; so how can I not feel a tiny, minuscule spark of hope? The question is not, of course, how much good the new party will be able to do, but how much evil it might undo, and I really don’t know. But yesterday does make things a lot more interesting, and a lot less certain (given the apocalyptic prognosis, this is a good thing) than I might have imagined.