Yes, the release of election day (days?) will be cathartic and wounds will be licked. I suppose shutting down this thread might be appropriate, but as Dave W. noted, there will be more to do. No matter who wins, there will be a lot on the plate. We will either be led further down the path to a Southern European model of socioeconomic decline, or we will have to press a new guy hard to genuinely "turn it around". Decline has the momentum from decades of institutionalizing sloth and envy, and the producers to non-producers ratio is perilously near going over center. The megaphone advocating shifting ever more power from the people to the elites is still in a position of dominance in communication systems, though I suspect their sycophancy in this cycle has wounded their credibility even more than before. Take a rest, but don't stop.