Left Ahead

I spent many years in Virginia and still identify with the best of us there. Thomas Jefferson in Notes on the State of Virginia (XVIII: Manners), "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just..."As this motley, churlish election cycle completes in less than a week, let's discourse on big themes, such as:Following the no-colored-Presidents-for-me tone, how deeply are we experiencing, the no-dames-for-President tone?Are 40% to 50% of us truly OK with a puerile, impulsive ignoramus as out leader?Are the judgmental Europeans right about us as bigots and socially retrograde?Can this election catapult us to a new America of tolerance and egalitarianism?We've had 8 years plus the campaign of "Oh, no, it's not that Obama is Black. It's that he's foreign; Muslim, a pinko. :Assuming POTUS Clinton the Greater, do we then get, "Oh, no, it's not that Hillary's a women. It's that she's a crook, a criminal, a pinko."?I can't believe 6% or more of the electorate is undecided, or so they claim. Then I"m an