Monday Monday randomocity

So, the election was last week, and I'm still quite astonished at some people's reaction to the outcome.

I've defriended a couple of people on Facebook simply because I got sick of the sheer vitriolic hatred from them that kept turning up in my news feed. Someone who hates like that--seething bitterness and rage--is someone I just don't want to be around or have any involvement with. People like that are poison.

Not to mention the folks who have defriended me. I know of a couple, anyways. Oh, well. I won't miss them.

I'm also quite astonished at the far right's astonishment at the results. Everyone else on the planet saw this coming except them. Why? Because they only believe what they want to believe. The pollsters they were using figured that out quickly and decided just to feed them highly skewed results to make them happy. The alternative was not to work at all, I suppose. Of course, the ones who did tell them the truth were either ignored or were told that they were biased. (Ironic, since they consider anything that doesn't go their way biased--no matter how true it is.)

That seems to be one of the biggest differences between lefties like me and righties. I'm not going to lie to myself to make myself feel better--I'd rather have the truth up front and raw so I can deal with it. They'd rather only hear what they want to hear, even if it isn't true--and if it isn't true, there is no power on earth that will convince them of that. I know this from bitter personal experience--for example, one (former) friend of mine simply refuses to accept any evidence that disproves something he believes in. I've long since quit having anything at all to do with him.

Ah. Arguing politics is pointless. Still, it's hard not to, these days.

Anyways, I've resumed work on The Harvester of Faces first draft. I had to back-track and rewrite the last few bits I'd done--it was not working. It's better now, I think. We'll see. I'm hoping to be done with it by around xmas. Maybe a bit before.

It's raining and chilly. Late fall weather.

That's all I've got on my mind tonight. What's up with you?