The Right to Vote

I saw this photo on the Washington Post.  Those are "I voted" stickers all over the grave of Susan B Anthony in Rochester, NY.  Let's remember her today - as we elect our first woman President.  I think about how much it meant to my grandmother to vote  up until her dying day at age 86.  She knew what it meant to actually get the opportunity to vote when she was already a mother of thirty-something.
But I haven't forgotten about Goodman Schwerner and Chaney or the Pettis Bridge.  (Forgive my spelling.)  African Americans fought and still fight to vote. 
But we might take another step forward tonight.
The country needs to put the lies behind us.  The difference in this election is that Trump tossed lies around like truth, ie., Clinton should be in jail, she would bring in millions of foreigners on day one, Clinton is sleeping away the campaign, she is ill and has no stamina and it goes on and on.  When Clinton talked about Trump's temperament and ability to be President, she told the truth.  Sure, I'm a liberal Democrat, but my observation is simple fact.  Trump lied, Clinton told the truth.
Friends have expressed the view that the Democrats and Clinton need to reach out to the Trump voters - the hard working white men who fear the loss of their livelihoods as the world moves forward, who resent others, women and people of color, who achieve in the evolving society.  I disagree, I think the democrats need to stand for their values - values that include affordable healthcare and college, rebuilding infrastructure, clean energy and the energy grid, among so much else.  Maybe if the Democrats get enough numerical strength they can overcome the fears of those left behind.
We might take a step forward tonight