{"id":1036,"date":"2026-02-15T11:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:03:18","slug":"election-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=1036","title":{"rendered":"Election Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>(November 2024)<\/em><\/h4>\n<h5><em>(repeat as needed)<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Safe in Canada, I observe<br \/>\nthe crisis rising in the south:<br \/>\nwill the people there deserve<br \/>\nthe curses from the liar\u2019s mouth?<br \/>\nWill civil liberties remain<br \/>\nwhen all the ballots have been cast?<br \/>\nWill autocratic fascists reign<br \/>\nover America at last?<br \/>\nAnd even if the people vote<br \/>\nto oust the misbehaving child,<br \/>\nwill he again pretend to gloat<br \/>\nand say sedition \u201cWill be wild\u201d?<br \/>\nWill guns come out? Will civil war<br \/>\nfinally slam shut freedom\u2019s door?<\/p>\n<p>Safe in Canada, you say?<br \/>\nFascism hungers for invasion.<br \/>\nThe MAGA States will sure betray<br \/>\ntreaties with any other nation.<br \/>\nWe may have burned the White House down<br \/>\nback in the War of 1812,<br \/>\nbut every rifle-toting clown<br \/>\nwill gladly into True North delve.<br \/>\nThey may be overconfident,<br \/>\nthey may be corpulent and fools,<br \/>\nbut can\u2019t all be incompetent<br \/>\nand they have more destructive tools.<br \/>\nPrepare, O Canada, to fight<br \/>\nfor democratic freedom\u2019s light.<\/p>\n<p>I hear the most important threat<br \/>\nof climate change is to your mind:<br \/>\nit makes us nervous and upset<br \/>\nto watch the living world unwind.<br \/>\nPoor baby! Take your calming pills<br \/>\nand maybe have a drink. Alas,<br \/>\nmeditation cures no ills<br \/>\noutside your head \u2013 no burning grass<br \/>\nor forest cares if you feel better.<br \/>\nNo glaciers slow their melting rate<br \/>\nbecause you write a thoughtful letter<br \/>\nor gracefully accept your fate.<br \/>\nPrayers provide little traction<br \/>\nwhen what is needed now is <em><strong>action<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(November 2024) (repeat as needed) Safe in Canada, I observe the crisis rising in the south: will the people there deserve the curses from the liar\u2019s mouth? Will civil liberties remain when all the ballots have been cast? Will autocratic fascists reign over America at last? And even if the<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=1036\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}