A beginning or the end.

Saturday morning. Beginning of November. A new weekend. Will this in history be seen as the end of our prolonged sequence of largely similar weekends or the end of a settled life? Tuesday is the American presidential election. Public opinion polls are divided and the outcome is difficult to predict. Should the Democrats win (or even remotely look as if they might), the Republicans have indicated that they will contest the results of the election with assorted allegations of fraud interference and so on. Should the Republicans win and Trump becomes the president, from his uterances so far, we can expect that radical change is underway and the existing order of the last decades will be overturned.