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A Moment To Breath
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A Moment To Breath The election is finally over. At least until the inauguration when the Trump 2024 flags, hats, bumper stickers and face masks start appearing in gun shops, Walmarts and Trump Stores throughout the country. For the moment I'm going to revel in the relative peace and quiet of a bit of normalcy in a year that has been anything but normal. Don't misunderstand, I have no illusions that Biden is some sort of savior of the free world; that everything will be sunshine, rainbows and unicorns shitting rice pudding, I know better than that. Nearly half of all Americans who voted lived through the last three years and ten months and thought, "Hell yes, I want four more years of this!" I didn't vote for Biden, I voted against Trump. I'll give Trump and his co-conspirators credit, they thoroughly prepped the battle field when he decided to run for president. The played into the fears of foreigners that are an all too human trait, they discredited the institutions that serve the country so that when the inevitable bad news would come out, it could be dismissed as "fake news". Anything negative about Dear Leader was obviously fake news. They demonized Democrats through hashtags and derogatory slogans, pure marketing to the masses. Keep it short and simple so that it would be easy to remember. If you weren't one hundred percent loyal to Dear Leader, you were the enemy. They convinced people that the Democrats would legalize post birth abortion, take away their guns, ban Christianity and install a one world communist government. Not to mention Covid would disappear after the election. It was head-scratching to see people I had always thought of as street smart and astute being taken in this gold plated conman and his grifter associates and family., In 20 my father contributed to Trump's campaign. This was a man who was dying of cancer at the time and didn't have the to toss away, yet, after watching Fox News and reading his NRA newsletters, decided that these mind-numbingly wealthy conmen deserved his . This was a man who didn't trust anyone, yet got taken in these scam artists. I wish he had lived to see what happened. I would be interested to see if he had changed his mind about Trump. When he was elected I had no delusions that he would change, I've followed his career for years and knew who he was. I was under the delusion that the system of checks and balances of our government would keep his tyrannical tendencies in check. I underestimated the degree to which the GOP would choose party over country. They enabled his, what I assume will turn out to be, criminal behavior over his time in office. Yet, his biggest enablers were reelected. This isn't over. Trump may be gone, but the ideas and attitudes which allowed him and his enablers to dismantle many of the principles that made this country great are still lingering in the cities and towns of the country. I don't know how we change it. I don't know how we get people to care for each other. I don't know how we get people to understand what made America a great place to live. Or at least had the potential to be a great place to live. It was nice to see people celebrating, to hear the bells of Paris ringing, the people of Philadelphia dancing in the streets. I'm enjoying the celebrations for now. There is work to be done. President Elect Biden has his work cut out for him, the GOP is not going to negotiate or compromise, they have learned they don't have to. I hope the Democrats are up to the task. |
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Aye McPass, it wsa nice to have the angry shouts drowned out by the deep collective sigh of relief, at least for a short while. I'll never understand how people can be so taken in by these grifters, and become so all consumed with anger and hatred........ Such a shame the Reps are taking advantage of the right wing misinformation campaign to give themselves an excuse to seriously hamper the next fours years......country first? Not so much....... Good luck to you all.
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Voting AGAINST Trump was just god-awful stupid. I wonder if you understand that now. This country was in a much better place with Trump being President.
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