It's easy to focus on the negative and to overlook the positive. Our brains are hardwired to always be on high alert for potential dangers and threats, and consciousness acts as sort of a radar system. However, if we identify too much with that radar system, then of course we're going to constantly feel under attack.
Tuesday was a historic Election Day, but all I could focus on was that my preferred candidate for Atlanta Mayor didn't make the cut for the special run-off election. But so much more happened that day, and almost all the rest of it good.
Democrats managed to flip enough districts blue in Georgia to break the Republican supermajority in the state legislature, positioning Georgia to be the next battleground state in 2018 and 2020.
The Georgia towns of Milledgeville, Statesboro, Cairo, and Norcross all elected their first African-American mayors.
Meanwhile, over in neighboring Alabama, Republican gubernatorial candidate Roy Moore has been accused of sexually molesting girls even younger than Alabama's young age of consent of 16, creating an advantage for his democratic rival in an already tight race.
Yup, the South is changing, if slowly and behind the national timeline, but still changing nonetheless. There was more good than bad in Tuesday's election, and even the disappointing mayoral candidates aren't all that bad, they're just not as good as others in the field.
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