One Week Later

 

Election Day 2024 is seven days in our rear view mirrors and, as Annie once sang to Daddy Warbucks, "the sun will come out tomorrow."

Not so to a lot of people around us.    Distraught friends can't bring themselves to social media right now.   Tears have flowed.   Several folks now use the celebrated "blackout" image as their on-line profile as if George Floyd has died again.   The BLM, of course, is nothing but a well-funded crime syndicate designed to annoy conservative thinkers.   

But I digress...

Hand wringing has become the norm in the past week and I am astounded how many of the people around me rely way too much on the political world.  My father used to say that civic leaders do just three things...

1.  Run for office.

2.  Get elected and give their friends jobs and money.

3.  Run for re-election so they can keep doing #2.

And he was right.

Oh, don't get me wrong.   I love Presidential history of the 20th Century and read up on all of those who sat in the Oval Office, both Democrats and Republicans.  Up until 20 years ago, the whole concept of Presidential elections was a civil and polite one.   There were differences but they were acknowledged and the people got to make an informed decision.

Enter the news media and now it's a contest like "The Amazing Race."   You're either good or bad or smart or stupid.   According to one of those nitwits on "The View" there are 73 million morons in the country who voted for Trump.  Gee, that's an awful lot of stupidity.  Indeed, what makes one side stupid and racist and the other side not.

This is politics and there is no right and no wrong.   It's the cycle of government that goes round and round and round.   What makes it worse now are the likes of Joy Reid and Whoopi Goldberg who say that their opinions are better than mine and yours.

We will get four years of Trump and this time around, the Democrats will continue to try and put in jail for unpaid parking tickets.  There will continue to be copious amounts of vitriole.   Meanwhile, despite what they think, there will be no concentration camps.   There will not be mass executions of illegal aliens. Gays will not be imprisoned. Women will continue to get abortions if they live in the right state.  

Think I'm making a joke with the above paragraph?   Well, lots of people are saying all of the above will happen over the next four years.  When did we become vested in such different viewpoints in our country?   

Again, I refer to my dad and realize it's all about the cycle that will continue to spin.   Because change in this country and its government is mind numbingly slow.   

Chill out, people.   

Dinner last night:  Beef chili.