post election in portland

it was hard to get to sleep after the election results. not because of my personal excitement as much as the city erupting in spontaneous fireworks. literally! cars drove here and there honking… people yelling and hollering… it took awhile for them to all get drunk and pass out on the sidewalks.

i think portland leans pretty darn left, but i’ve never seen such an outpouring. people were giddy, and still love is in the air. i think we might agree the election swung left because a fair number of people were mad as hell, and weren’t going to take it anymore. of course, only ’slightly’ more than 50% of the country ever elects a president. if you’re among the slightly less than 50% this time and not so happy about the election result, i’m sorry. it will just flip back and forth like that. if you’re someone who votes for one of the < 1% candidates, cudos for voting your conscience instead of participating in the perennial run-off. personally i would prefer to see the electoral system scrapped and a true popular vote instead; even though i tend to vote with a major party i’m not happy with only getting a run-off election each time. i’d rather have open primaries and get to participate in either side of each run-off instead of only getting a say in one half of each run-off.

i’m getting really excited about the possibility of a cabinet level chief technology officer (CTO) appointment and the weight that is given to technology development as a result. any suggestions you would like to make to the america CTO? fiber everywhere? copyright enforcement changes? rethinking the post office? universal ID cards versus privacy? is the internet the next nationalized interstate highway, like korea?

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