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I asked my Uber driver who he is voting for. He<br />
did not strike me as a Republican, and if his<br />
seven scented-tree air fresheners could talk, I<br />
have a feeling they would tell me that Mary Jane<br />
is a frequent passenger, if you get my drift.<br />
So, despite best practice, I asked my Uber driver who he is voting for. He did not<br />
strike me as a Republican, and if his seven scented-tree air fresheners could talk,<br />
I have a feeling they would tell me that Mary Jane is a frequent passenger, if you<br />
get my drift.<br />
He tells me that he wants Bernie but it doesn’t look like it’s happening, so he<br />
has to think about it. Think about what, voting at all or who to vote for? He<br />
answers, “Who to vote for.” How the hell can you like anything that Bernie talks<br />
about or says or represents on any level and then have to decide between Trump<br />
or Clinton? It’s not hard to figure out if you support a racist or not. I was having<br />
a hard time deciding if I should stay in the car. However, I would have a much<br />
harder time walking home, so I stayed. I chalked up this Uber guy’s nonsense as<br />
an outlier.<br />
Then, a few weeks later I was in a Lyft. Now you must know that this girl had a<br />
Grateful Dead sticker on her car—and maybe a rainbow or unicorn. No, it was a<br />
rainbow-colored unicorn. I felt like it was pretty safe to get her in on my election<br />
poll. What does she do? She gives me the same runaround as the Uber guy!<br />
Blah, blah, she likes Bernie and Hillary is a liar. A liar, yes. A misogynistic, racist<br />
violence inciter? Not so much. I’ll take the liar. And this girl with her stickers!<br />
Lulling me into a false sense of commonalities and a love of colorful mythical<br />
creatures. She’s the liar! I do not understand. It is definitely against the rules of<br />
bumper stickers to falsely advertise like that. You just don’t do that kind of thing.<br />
The bad news is, I was starting to see a trend. According to my poll, things were<br />
getting crazy, and not the way I like it. When I told my friend Lori about my job as<br />
a pollster she was surprised. When I gave her the results of my poll, telling her<br />
we were in trouble, she said no, it’s worse than trouble. We’re in Trumple.<br />
Luckily, this was all in the past and now it just seems like a bad dream. Trump<br />
has led himself down a long and windy path of talking shit and it seems he’s<br />
pretty far gone. Not far enough gone that I will renege on my decision to vote for<br />
Hillary. We seem to be out of the danger zone, but I can’t be too sure. The worst<br />
thing would be to relax and think we’re out of Trumple and then blow it. So I’m<br />
sticking to my reluctant decision to vote for Hillary. No excuses.
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