Post-election reflection

Some of my friends reacted to the election results the way other folks reacted to the prophecy of the Mayan Apocalypse: despair and gloom. There are many reasons to be disappointed and concerned by the outcome. But let's not make things worse by the foolish things we run around in our heads. The Republican victory, in fact, is already history. Just the way past Democratic victories and Whig victories and Tory victories are history. What comes next is the issue at hand. 

The somewhat surprising and always annoying thing is that there is always something at hand on the other side of predicted ends-of-the-world, whether the feared end is the election of Barack Obama or that of Ted Cruz. We all wake up the next day, rub our eyes and look around. Back to work.