Incivility, gender, race and hate

I spent many years in Virginia and still identify with the best of us there. Thomas Jefferson in Notes on the State of Virginia (XVIII: Manners), "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just..."

As this motley, churlish election cycle completes in less than a week, let's discourse on big themes, such as:

• Following the no-colored-Presidents-for-me tone, how deeply are we experiencing, the no-dames-for-President tone?
• Are 40% to 50% of us truly OK with a puerile, impulsive ignoramus as out leader?
• Are the judgmental Europeans right about us as bigots and socially retrograde?
• Can this election catapult us to a new America of tolerance and egalitarianism?

We've had 8 years plus the campaign of "Oh, no, it's not that Obama is Black. It's that he's foreign; Muslim, a pinko. :Assuming POTUS Clinton the Greater, do we then get, "Oh, no, it's not that Hillary's a women. It's that she's a crook, a criminal, a pinko."?

I can't believe 6% or more of the electorate is undecided, or so they claim. Then I"m an incredulous sort. Playing cards so close to your vest makes them tattoos. Bad form.

Let's kick around the final days of a much too long, far too nasty season.