Fall was full on and the night cool. Waiting for the supermoon show at the beach at low tide ebb was like lying in quickly cooling syrup accompanied by the steady whine of sand gnats. The still air was perfumed with electrified sea salt smell.

During this latest supermoon’s rising on Monday November 14th, we stood waiting for stars to appear over the sea’s black horizon on southernmost portion of Tybee Island’s beach. We watched the electric orange surf appear all down the shore and roll and crash and darken again. With the sun finally down, the surf blued, then paled, and grayed. The largest lunar disk to appear during our life then appeared. The crowd quickened, grew some more with the only sound hearable above the ocean wash being the clicks and whirring of 35 mm cameras on tripods in the surf.

We turned back towards our car soon after a wide straight line of orange light shimmered from the orb to the water at our feet. With the orange lunar orb at our backs and the sand gnats finally departed, we trudged slowly back to our ride on the side of the road. As we sped home along the darkened causeways of fill between the barrier islets and the mainland towards Savannah, the embiggened orange circle chased and stalked us in our car’s rear view mirrors. We were certain that it was closer than it looked.

Meanwhile in the nation’s first city and imperial capitol, a war rages on as if this supermoon had rendered these cities’ inhabitants supermad.

The combatants are trying to impose a false and negative view of their opponent in the minds of their followers. Physical facts are being ignored. There seems to be little impulse to learn from the recent election results. Mass media newspapers, internet, broadcast and cable outlets were, of course, colored and biased pre-election, but falsification and future scare-mongering of the kind that is being practiced today is without any rules. Political warfare in accordance with its previous rules was a sure safeguard of nation’s sanity, perhaps the most important of all safeguards. While elections could be won or lost, no ruling class could be completely irresponsible.

They are now.

Lord help us.

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