Mighty democracy on display
Voluminous photos of days of early voters are greatly heartening compared to the far fewer on a single election day.
This visual coverage seems to have energized the turnouts and boosted patience to stand in line much longer that those of the solo day.
Motley-dressed citizens voter rallies they might be termed where masks and distancing were mostly in effect in contrast to the stage-managed Trump gatherings with crane-held flags, giant posters, AF-1, HMX-1 and shiny black caravans, and blinkered security forces.
Determinedly waiting in the rain, in the dark, in sobering and subdued queues, without bells and whistles and harangues and arm-waving and roars of love and hatred, the dutiful serpentines slowly advanced, fanfare and screaming left on bannered screens and full-page-ads inky paper.
Mighty democracy on display, self-regulated, self-secured, self-ordered, self-promoted, self-rewarded, actually more selfless than the ego-driven campaigns flush with funds and controls and biases and lies and brags and repetition and forgetableness, too distant to be believed, too doctrinaire for fairmindedness, too undemocratic, too top-down and royally presented to satisfy the yearnings of the self-governing to act on its own, with its neighbors, in public.
Here we are they openly displayed their duty better than the pretentious leaders clothed in fake smiles, promises, elbow bumps, concern for the down to earth voters conditionally trusting only themselves.