[FRIAM] Dear Eric and Bret

[Steve Smith]

I am not registered with either red nor blue party so did not vote this
round, but I did take Mary to deliver her absentee ballot (since she
failed to mail it on time).   The early voting place in Pojoaque was not
accepting them (early voting only) and they directed us to our normal
place of polling which is on the San Ildefonso Pueblo where non-Pueblo
members are distinctly not welcome even for voting.... we tried the El
Rancho community center that *sometimes* is a polling place, but is
closed.  We finally chose to drive in to SFe the county Clerk and
discovered that they were fully prepared... parking attendants helping
people get in and out quickly to vote or drop a ballot... including
carrying a box to drop it into *if we chose*.    As we drove off, one
said to the other "I can't believe how many people are coming today!?!"

I had it rubbed in my face recently that voting is a self-righteous act
of ignorantly willful complicity with a system that doesn't work (my
cynical paraphrase of something probably intended to say something
entirely different), but I couldn't help feeling a little smug that the
current troubles our A***Hole-in-Chief is stirring as hard as he can
might be bringing out the vote, and almost entirely against him (albeit
5 months early).    When I read the ballot, I realized I didn't  have a
clue about most of the candidates, and except for maybe one candidate I
didn't trust what I *thought* I knew, instead being informed by the
never-ending onslaught of positive/negative campaign literature and
nothing else.

"Democracy is the worst form of government... except for all those we've
tried so far" - Churchill 

- Steve

On 6/2/20 3:08 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
> "Young people," eh.
> I visited two polling places this morning.  Saw probably 30 people --
> poll workers and voters.  All but two were wearing masks.  The two? 
> Early 20-somethings.
> TJ
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> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:18 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com
> <mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Jochen,
>
>      
>
>     I have attached my draft letter to the Weinstein brothers. 
>
>      
>
>     Elderly as this lists is, I think there are only a few people  on
>     it old enough to have ever entertained the dream of the Jimmy
>     Stewart Professorship.  Do you know that once upon a time there
>     was a culture of ambivalence around getting money for research? 
>      Most of the would-be academics on this list have encountered a
>     much harsher reality.  And now, among the Barista’s of Santa Fe, I
>     regularly encounter young people whom I would gladly accept as my
>     colleagues at any university, yet who will never get the chance. 
>
>      
>
>     It’s just so f***ing sad.  
>
>      
>
>     Nick
>
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