JERRY POURNELLE ON THE ELECTION: “Now I suppose the United States can survive as a federalized unitary socialist state built on class warfare lines, with the very wealthy who don’t pay much in the way of taxes, those on the dole, and the unionized public service employees, teachers, and lawyers entirely dominating the political systems. It won’t be the same country I grew up in, but then we don’t now live in the country I grew up in. Alas, I suspect that’s what’s at stake here.”