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Civil Warriors (demo) - a song of the restless militia men

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Angry America's brooding zeitgeist, in the shadows of the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Not like anything you ever heard from me. A character study, rambling up from a post-election morning (after listening to the latest from Flux Oersted). https://creatingmarvels.podbean.com/e/civil-warriors-a-song-of-the-restless-militia-men-1604856292/ "One hundred percent behind our guy." My 1st listen to this slightly-haunting was incomplete, https://soundcloud.com/robitron/new-day-in-plain-sight and I cut off at a point in the lyrics where the singer's making an effort to say something to someone with which he disagrees. I couldn't finish listening at that moment, but I felt a stong need to make no-excuses and go sit down with my wife's acoustic guitar, "Pretty Baby," and start a song from no idea- only a mood. So, I took off from the dark shades of the flourescent tone of your song, and gathered voices of terrorists. I was like, ...

Election Morning Thoughts about the vote totals, in relation to the out come of the 2020 Presidential Race

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Many people feel like they are on a roller coaster erected at a county fair. Will it hold up? Will the election system deliver America actual freedom? We would only need to cast 42.9 million more votes to equal the totals of 2016. That would be less than half as many as were cast in 2016: 79-plus million. Due to the pandemic, it’s overall good if those who need to, want to, or see it as sensible in any way, have cast their ballots already. That relieves the lines, potentially, for socially-distanced, hygienic voting. But I think those conditions will have to be maintained in numbers, likely somewhere beneath the total of in-person election day voters in 2016. I eyeball it and would think Biden wins about 50 to 55 million of those early votes. A remainder of 38.6 to 43 for the Republicans sounds about right. They are just so much more likely to be today’s in-person voters. I can foresee thirty million of them turning up, easily, today. But if I’m wrong about the percenta...