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How We Survive The Horror Of Midterms — Again
Election season is a re-run of awful horror movies
ROARING RIVERS
Formerly Very Unpopular Strong Opinions by Christyl Rivers
Ghosts of fear-mongering madness
When it comes to election seasons, it’s the ghosts of Halloween pasts and November chills all over again.
The weather may be warm because we broke it. But the cold, hearted steel veins that freeze us, also brace us to survive the next few weeks.
The scare tactics are not really helpful to make us feel warm and fuzzy inside. Instead, we glimpse the monsters in the mirrors.
Television commercials hit us with a ton of mud-slinging campaigns that assure us that candidate “A” is Satan, definitely, and only candidate “B” an angel sent from heaven, can put the whole world right again.
Everyone knows this is not the case.
Everyone knows this is just part of the decor for the horror season.
Everyone knows they can’t stop it. It’s a nightmare loop complete with tense music, jump scares, bumps in the night, thumps in the chest, lumps in the throat, and sometimes, even Trumps in our…