From Glenn R. Geist at MadMikesAmerica:
The narcissism of small differences. I like the title of Freud’s 1917 book though it didn’t at first seem to apply to the dispute I narrowly avoided in the FB page of the local newspaper yesterday. But brooding about the end of America last night I changed my mind. Perhaps when the differences become so small they’re not differences at all the arguments become the most fierce.
Of course the argument was about the so-small-it-doesn’t-matter differences between Absentee voting and vote-by-mail voting. Is there really any difference other than one asks for an excuse and the other does not, even though there is almost always a reason that has to do with health and ability? Is the voter out of town or is one just unable for fear of dying? That is the question and it’s a question I can’t see as having any importance to the honesty of an election despite the assurances of the deranged that we need to force people to swim through a lagoon of deadly virus to go to the polls to avoid a “disaster.”
It’s a small difference or ‘no consequence’ difference it seems to me. Not so to the local Trump cultists who screech like subway car wheels.