I usually don’t post political stuff to my Facebook, as I have a large number of international musician friends (we play a tapping guitar called a “Chapman Stick” and talk about it and rock it out amongst ourselves about it). My international friends are often more interested and vocal about our politics than many American musicians, who often have diverse audiences and try to appear relatively “neutral” to most politics. And because of my job and the Hatch Act, I also can’t talk about politics during the election season during working hours, and have avoided it mostly on social media. But since the Hatch Act releases me from discussing politics now that the election is over (and deliberately not putting scare quotes around “over”), and seeing the flood of “I see dead people voting in Detroit” memes from my friends and family here in Michigan, I had to make a post about the political math we’re all living through now, and that some of us are in denial about. Here’s the post. (It’s not publicly shared, but reprinted below. I slightly formatted it, but not very well. Been a while since I published a diary. Yoroshiku.)
Political Math Post (don't read if math makes you cry). The Hatch Act now lets me have an opinion about math and express it.