Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Presidential Election 2016 -- a dilema absent a logical decision

A whole bunch of millenials woke up on the morning of November 9th 2016 in a new reality for them. A similarly large bunch of middle Americans also woke up to a new reality for them. The first group became snowflakes and dedicated their lives to protesting the American election process that had previously produced Bill Clinton and Barak Obama. The second group sighed in relief for the American election system that didn't produce president HRC (Her Royal Clintoness). Instead we got Trump.
      To call the election 'Hobson's Choice' is unfortunately incorrect since such a choice is between a unpleasant outcome or nothing; a bad horse or no horse at all. Hmmm!! Perhaps that's not such a bad description after all. However, more correctly it was a dilemma, a choice between two bad outcomes. I chose neither preferring instead to take the Hobson route and make no choice for president at all. The cowards way out? Perhaps, but I could not vote for Stalin in a pantsuit or for Mussolini with hair.
     We now have Mussolini with hair as our president and half the nation in the process of rioting, burning buildings, blocking traffic, throwing rocks and petrol bombs at the police and generally behaving like members of the Democrat party who were thwarted. The other half of the country didn't riot when Obama was elected but are now behaving in a smug way as they expect a border wall to be built, taxes to be reduced, Congress to obey the laws of the rest of us, uncontrolled immigration to become controlled, the budget to be balanced, foreign jobs to be repatriated, and the military to be strengthened.
       I suppose my greatest disappointment is how much these folks invest of themselves in their chosen politicians. It seems almost unAmerican to me to expect so much from government and so little of yourself. I don't think it was always that way, but I've not been here all that long.     
   

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