An internal struggle-The Devil and the Angel
Deep down inside, maybe not so deep, is there a struggle going on in your head and your heart? On one hand, part of you wants to see Roy Moore win. The little devil sitting on your shoulder poking you with a pitchfork. The part of you that makes it possible to eat a pint of Ben & Jerry's while watching a terrible movie. It'll feel bad but it will feel weirdly good. You see, if he does win, it proves everything you want to believe about republicans, and evangelicals and Alabama and Donald Trump-well Trump doesn't need anymore help proving what he is, but you get the picture. You get to be smug and believe that it will tar the republicans as the party of whatever bottom dwelling creature Roy Moore actually is. You'll shake your head and think it confirms your preconceptions of the "rubes" who elected him. You get to say "what kind of people actually vote for somebody like Roy Moore?". It would be great spectacle. You hope it would sour the general public on republicans for a generation. But most of all, it's what you expected out of those folks.
On the other hand. You want to believe that people are good and smart enough to reject a character like Moore. The angel on your other shoulder smiling and telling you that voting for someone who prosecutes people who kill little girls over someone who molests girls is an easy choice. Surely people in Alabama know Moore is deranged. It's an opportunity to grab a senate seat in a deep red state. A chance to disrupt Trump and the republican's agenda. You know rationally that the last thing we need is a guy like Roy Moore in the senate. You know you can't trust the republicans who have rigged a system that has already given us two presidents with a minority of the vote. We have a gerrymandered house majority. A senate and electoral college that provide disproportionate representation of the republican vote. Moore might help put the final nail in the coffin of democracy. There's no way setting a guy like Moore loose in that environment will lead to anything good. It might seem like a long shot but you want to see the "better angels of our nature" prevail. It's the right outcome.
Me? I'm going with the angel. No matter what, I'm still going to believe people are good, because that's my nature. I want to see Jones kick Moore's butt and stick it to him and Bannon and Trump. I want to revel in their loss. (I know that's not really very angelic) All those "Democrats Win Both Ways" pundits out there notwithstanding, nothing good comes from Moore winning this race. I'll quote Richard Shelby of all people, we ARE at a tipping point and it's time to rein the country in from the brink. And if Moore wins? Well that would suck, and I'm not going to lie to you, I have heard the whispers from the devil on my other shoulder.
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