Defeat never negates duty, although it may alter our priorities and direction.
The voters of America—or perhaps more crucially, the non-voters—have spoken loudly, and the best I can say for the result is that any "rioting in the streets" in its wake is more likely to be over-celebration than looting and wanton destruction.
To those who decided to "send a message" to the Republican Party by voting for its opponents or by sitting out the election, I can only echo one of my father's favorite phrases from my childhood: You are cutting off your nose to spite your face.
There will be hard lessons to learn from this, from the humblest home to the Oval Office. Never has the situation in our country—indeed in all of Western Civilization—felt so precarious to me; not even my elementary school days of "duck and cover" drills were so ominous. It is possible that America has pitched over a cliff into a descent from which recovery may take generations. I have hope that we will come to our senses much sooner—yet I can't forget that more than seven decades stretched between the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Life goes on, and duty calls. To quote George MacDonald, Bethink thee of something that thou oughtest to do, and go and do it, if it be but the sweeping of a room, or the preparing of a meal, or a visit to a friend. Heed not thy feelings: Do thy work.
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