Well, tonight’s the big night, when Hillary Clinton will officially accept the nomination to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for President. I don’t think you could ask much more from Bernie Sanders and even if a handful of bummed out Bernie supporters are getting a lot of publicity (because the media loves to amplify that sort of thing), polls show that a greater percentage of Sanders supporters are planning to vote for Clinton than Clinton supporters (the PUMAs, if you recall) voted for Obama back in 2008. And, really, the thought of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Oligarchy running our government (and our economy) for the next 4 – 8 years and beyond (I envision a lot of Supreme Court justices mysteriously dying of polonium-210-induced radiation poisoning, leading to a 9-Scalia Supreme Court) should terrify any non-insane person.

Oh, sure, if you live in Texas or Oklahoma or NY or California, you can vote for whomever you want, because the outcome in your state is pretty much already decided. It’s the “swing” states that really count – and there are an awful lot of insane people in those swing states. That, combined with the systematic attempts by Republican-controlled state legislatures to keep poor people and minorities away from the polls (plus what might be a generally low turnout election, given that these two candidates both have 58 percent unfavorable ratings) should make for a very unsettling election night, unless something happens to put the Trump candidacy in the crapper (and I don’t think there’s anything he can do that would hurt him among his supporters, whoever the hell they are).

So if you live in a solid red or blue state, it’s time to move to FL, GA, PA, VA, OH, NC, MI, or some other swing state (make it one with at least double-digit electoral votes, though – no reason to waste your time on pissant states like ME or NH) if you can afford it.

As for me, I’ll be staying put here in NY. At least, being a “safe” state, we won’t be subjected to as much of the incessant campaigning that other folks will (I hope).