As promised, I voted this afternoon. Walked over to the election office and cast my vote for Hillary Clinton. There were only seven people there, including the four election officials, which outnumbered voters. No hassle at all. I remember a time when they really wanted a pint of blood before you voted. I kept thinking of the Portillos opening here in Rockford and how you couldn’t get near it for months because of the lines.

Aside from yelling and screaming to people who will inevitably tune me out if I rant too long I’m not sure what more I can do. I have a bad feeling because ten scandals can be uncovered showing Trump is an awful human being and no one cares, but if Hillary is revealed to have one hair out of place the news goes on for two weeks. It’s openly sexist, but it’s not going to change.

I have kept feeling this entire election season that eventually people would come to their senses. This morning Trump asked non conservative Christians to identify themselves then asked his audience if they should be allowed to stay. How different is that from the thumbs up/down of a Roman emperor?

Would it be safe to be an atheist in Trump’s America? I don’t feel confident that it would. I have no problem believing if conservative Christians were to get a mandate to do as they want that many groups would be in imminent danger, and I mean of imprisonment, harassment, violence against themselves, families and businesses, summary firing, and on and on. Maybe even public punishment such as was employed at the height of the Salem Witch Trials.

I like living in an America where I can express my atheism openly and without fear of reprisals. I don’t believe I would have such freedom in trump’s America.

So, I voted today. It was easy. Far easier than undoing a runaway train of hatred and bigotry endorsed by the state.