Any one – politician, television commentator, blogger, or other – who denied the existence of the pandemic, who didn’t wear a mask in public, who called for the resignation of Dr. Fauci – should be denied a vaccine – forever.
Roll Back the Madness
A lot of the stupid, illegal, and dangerous shit that Tramp and his cronies have done can be quickly reversed by the new administration.
Other things are more difficult like the stacking of the Supreme Court (which must be changed to eliminate lifetime appointments).
The biggest problem are the 75 millions people out there who voted for him. Not all, but most of whom are racists, misogynists, homophobic, and just plain idiots. And plenty of them are elected officials at all levels of government.
Social media has proven to have much more potential for harm than good. But that genie is out of the bottle and may prove to be the most dangerous challenge that there is to the future of democracy.
We still can’t relax
It seems like I’ve been holding my breath for ten months.
I was so wrong four years ago when I rationalized that Tramp couldn’t do much harm in four years and by then the Democratic Party would get it’s head out of its butt and find a good, young candidate. Well, Tramp has almost killed our democracy, and the Democratic party went with another old white guy. Fortunately their old white guy beat the psychopath old white guy in the old white house. But I fear the damage is done and is so deep and wide that we will never recover.
Is it the culmination of all the mistakes we’ve made as baby boomers who should have been able to establish a new standard for decency, civility, honesty, compassion? But no, Tramp is one of us and he’s a horror show. Not a film fictitious one; he’s the real thing. And he could be just as dangerous out of the presidency as he has been as president.
It’s been a miserable four years on so many levels. Is COVID the plague that we deserve because over 75 million people can vote for such an abomination?
I’m going to try to come out of my bunker and start blogging again – for my own sense of purpose because no one else reads it.