Post-election thoughts

Here lately, I've been thinking about some famous revolutions that went bad. Like the Russian Revolution, for example. You get a whole bunch of people who are all against something. Czarist rule, the elite, a giant pumpkin, whatever it is. They are all united together against that Thing, but no one really says what it is they really do want. (Probably because they know they don't have all that much in common). Once they get rid of the Thing they hated--the king, the Czar, the party in power, they can't really figure out where to go from there, and it all sort of spirals out of control, and it's never very pretty. Sometimes it's disastrous. So my hope for the country right now is that everyone who is feeling a lot of strong anti-something-emotions does a bit of soul-searching to find what it is they DO support, and then takes some personal action to make that happen.