On Wednesday morning of this past week, nobody was completely happy in this country.

No matter who you voted for – whether “witches,” “wing-nuts” or “Taliban Dan;” no matter what kind of issues dotted your local ballots; there is no way everything went “your way.” Besides, if we half believed all the rancid rhetoric that has flooded the airwaves this past month, a large billet of unrepentant villains and a huge ballot of disasters have been given voter approval. Or maybe not.

Not that there aren’t important economic, ethical, social issues to be decided. Not that there aren’t real differences of opinions. But now that the whirlwinds of media mud-slinging and dirt-storms are settling, how much is really going to change?

The over-blown, over-dramatic, over-exuberant circus we live with …