Divided We Fall.

All around, people are declaring with wonder and pride that this year will have the biggest voter turnout in election history. I just stood in line for twenty minutes behind two Republicans and the Democratic Mayor and his wife, along with about fourteen other people (not counting the camera crews and reporters) whose choices I don't know.

I think it's a terrible thing. And maybe I'm all alone in my thinking. But that voters are flocking to the polls in record numbers tells me we are a nation divided, not united, that never before has a presidency been so divisive, that never before have the disenfranchised felt moreso.

I am no more glad to see people exercising their right to vote than I am to see them exercise their right to bear arms. Even if my candidate wins, those who vote for the other guy will feel lost. Not that I would want to see Bush take another four years. The problem is that he has already destroyed any sense of unity we could feel as a nation. He has made us hate our neighbors and our relatives.

I don't remember it feeling like this. I remember voting. I remember my candidates losing. But I don't remember feeling as though the sky were falling.