November 8, 2016 Lunch – Chicken Cesar Salad, Dinner – Election Party at Janis and Tom’s

November 8, 2016 Lunch – Chicken Cesar Salad,  Dinner – Election Party at Janis and Tom’s

Not much to say about the food today, but a lot to say about the election.

I worked through breakfast, so at 12:30 I made a Chicken Cesar Salad, chopping a PPI leg of roasted chicken, a head of romaine, ¼ of a cucumber, a tomato, and three green onions.  I also made a melted cheese sandwich by melting slices of Irish cheddar cheese on slices of baguette.

We were invited to an election viewing party at Janis and Tom’s house.  At 7:00 we took two bottles of champagne, a case of Coors beer and the Italian Cloud cake with the pomegranate seeds and cream anglais to their house.

Herb Denise, Megen, Barry and Kylene, Barb also came.  Soon the festive atmosphere turned to mourning and by 10:30 when we left there was no need to open the champagne.

Janis’ hospitality was impeccable as usual.  She made a crock pot full of Texas chili with sautéed sirloin, pinto beans and lots of seasonings that made a thick red stew.  I ate two bowls with grated cheese on top with a couple of Negra Modelos.

Then dessert was served. Along with Suzette’s cloud cake on a puddle of pomegranate crime anglais was a piece of rich chocolate cake with nuts that Megan made.  Megen said it was a Waldorf $100.00 cake.

Our little group of democrats sat on the comfortable sofa in the basement in front of the big screen TV and watched in growing as the map looked progressively worse for Hillary.

My general impression of the election without a lot of refection is that I had been to this rodeo before.  What I mean by that statement is that I lived through the 60’s and experienced first hand the hope for progressive change in America resulting from the Civil Rights movement, the Anti-war movement, and the counter cultural Renaissance of the late 60’s was thwarted by a conservative reaction in 1968 to the anti-war marches, sit ins, and finally the demonstrations against the war and social injustice and the riots following  the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King  that tore apart the Democratic Party that was exploited by Nixon with his promises of law and order and his Southern strategy that resulted in the traditional Southern White conservative/racist wing of the Democratic Party bolting to the Republican Party.   The unfortunate result was a lock down on descent, police actions like Kent State, show trials like the Chicago Eight that brought a chill to progressive politics until Obama.

It looks like the path to progressive change has been blocked once again by a racist xenophobic reaction by poor uneducated racist Americans.  This will create fodder for years for social/political historians who will follow the path opened by great historians like Richard Hofstadter.

Non Appetit