As Hamlet said, that is the question. Course he was contemplating committing suicide. Is that the contemplation voters in this country are hurtling towards?

The character Vizzini in The Princess Bride often replied “Inconceivable” when confronted with a statement he rejected. Ultimately his inability to see alternative outcomes led to his destruction. Both sides would utter “Inconceivable” regarding the other side winning. Will that lead to the eventual destruction of this country?

Everyone wants to make a prediction. A blowout? A wave? Repeat of 2016? Repeat of some previous election? I won’t bet the farm on this outcome, as I cannot be objective. But I will say this. If Trump wins, then it will be because a larger proportion of vote casters want to see the United States be hurt. Or broken up. Eventually destroyed. Voting against their own interests. A phenomenon we have been witnessing now for years in red states. It is, in fact, a thing.

But I don’t think it started here. Look across the pond to the UK. A hundred years ago. Names: Philby, Blunt, Maclean, Cairncross. Men who spied for the USSR against their native country. Other alleged spies almost made it to the top before allegations of double age try were revealed. In this case, these were elite academic types doing the destruction. On this side of the Atlantic, they’re angry, fat, not too bright white men who are putting a knife in the back of America. And my son. Alas, I weep at the thought.

it will be over soon, and we will know which way the country is going. But don’t forget the law of unintended consequences. It is alive and well. “Inconceivable?” Maybe it’s what I’ve said many times before in this blog: maybe it’s just our time to be diminished, no matter who wins.