A pretty fair assessment, I think. Feel much the same way myself. Btw...I'm about as "in the middle" as you can get, and not pretending anything is normal. But I know there are a lot of us middle ground folks who are, and that's pretty scary.
Didn't vote for a "return to normalcy" but to keep the country from going over the cliff. Norma…
A pretty fair assessment, I think. Feel much the same way myself. Btw...I'm about as "in the middle" as you can get, and not pretending anything is normal. But I know there are a lot of us middle ground folks who are, and that's pretty scary.
Didn't vote for a "return to normalcy" but to keep the country from going over the cliff. Normalcy or anything resembling it, if it is to return, is a long way off and will not likely look as it did in the past. (And that may not be such a bad thing.) I voted to silence the piper's flute and stanch the flow of lemmings marching toward the precipice. Wouldn't have cared much if they went over, just didn't want the rest of the country to be dragged over with them. No, I voted for stability, which we have to some very small degree now, relatively speaking at least. Which buys a little time to gird for the more well-organized assault on our freedom and liberties that I'm unhappily rather certain is coming.
It's pretty much always been Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil about one thing or another in our country. But the sun always rises, and for the most part Good, to one degree or another, has more often been revealed in its light than Evil. And I hope it will be so this time around as well. But hoping won't git 'er done. And, sadly, neither will voting for Republicans, as there don't seem to be enough good ones left (i.e., Cheney, Kinzinger, Meijer) to make any difference. Not in the short term anyway. And if you want to win a war - be it hot or cold - you need to use the most effective tactics.
At my age I doubt I'll be around long enough to see what any long-term "return to normalcy" looks like. It took a long time to arrive at the point at which we find ourselves at the moment, and an election cycle or two, even if the results are "good", won't produce much more than some much needed and hopefully stronger stability. But you know, if that means I can go to bed at night with a reasonable expectation that if I get up on the right side of the dirt the next morning, I'll be arising in a country that's still a democratic republic, and not one preceded by the name of a certain yellow fruit from south of our border, I'm good with that.
A pretty fair assessment, I think. Feel much the same way myself. Btw...I'm about as "in the middle" as you can get, and not pretending anything is normal. But I know there are a lot of us middle ground folks who are, and that's pretty scary.
Didn't vote for a "return to normalcy" but to keep the country from going over the cliff. Normalcy or anything resembling it, if it is to return, is a long way off and will not likely look as it did in the past. (And that may not be such a bad thing.) I voted to silence the piper's flute and stanch the flow of lemmings marching toward the precipice. Wouldn't have cared much if they went over, just didn't want the rest of the country to be dragged over with them. No, I voted for stability, which we have to some very small degree now, relatively speaking at least. Which buys a little time to gird for the more well-organized assault on our freedom and liberties that I'm unhappily rather certain is coming.
It's pretty much always been Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil about one thing or another in our country. But the sun always rises, and for the most part Good, to one degree or another, has more often been revealed in its light than Evil. And I hope it will be so this time around as well. But hoping won't git 'er done. And, sadly, neither will voting for Republicans, as there don't seem to be enough good ones left (i.e., Cheney, Kinzinger, Meijer) to make any difference. Not in the short term anyway. And if you want to win a war - be it hot or cold - you need to use the most effective tactics.
At my age I doubt I'll be around long enough to see what any long-term "return to normalcy" looks like. It took a long time to arrive at the point at which we find ourselves at the moment, and an election cycle or two, even if the results are "good", won't produce much more than some much needed and hopefully stronger stability. But you know, if that means I can go to bed at night with a reasonable expectation that if I get up on the right side of the dirt the next morning, I'll be arising in a country that's still a democratic republic, and not one preceded by the name of a certain yellow fruit from south of our border, I'm good with that.