It probably goes without saying that this is going to be long and incredibly political. If either of those worry you, I'd recommend not reading this post; I promise, your lives will still just be as good whether you do or not.
November 4th has had a few days to settle. People's brains are starting to ease up, the elated are calming down, the less-elated are going back to work. Curiously, the sun has continued to rise every day.
I tend to tread lightly around posting views on US politics, greatly on part that I'm not a US citizen - never have, likely never will be. Last week was not my election, and today Barack Obama is not my president-elect. Ultimately, however I feel about the way the US political machine goes, my say will have no direct effect on it in quite the same was as a ballot slip.
And yes, those do count.
All the same, you've all probably noticed a bit of a trend with my commenting this past week:
"The rest of the world is going to be directly affected by this election: don't screw it up for the rest of us, now. No pressure or anything."
Like it or not, the United States of America does hold a massive amount of sway in the world. We're all connected. If the US economy prospers, we all prosper; if it tanks, we're all hosed.
And really, in the case of the US and Canada, that's about as true as it gets. We all had a vested interest in how this election panned out, and all of us had our own little hopes and fears for what was to come. And yeah, we have our own thoughts about how things have gone down as well.
