"... nothing you do in the White House matters. You know why not? Because as far as the mass of voting morons is concerned, while you're in office, you'll be the worst single president they've ever had. Until you stop. Then it's some other poor bastard's turn. And even that doesn't matter, because ten, twenty years later, they'll look back on you, and wonder why they didn't appreciate you when they had you. In hindsight even Warren Gamaliel Harding looks good. You, uh, following me? You don't get to make a difference. You don't get to do jack shit. You know what you get? You get an entry in the history book, and every 15 minutes, every day at Disney world, an animatronic puppet wearing your face will wave or nod when the spotlight hits it." ~ Neil Gaiman The Sandman, World's End, "The Golden Boy"
That seems like a very appropriate description of the presidency. I don't remember George H.W. Bush, but he only got one term. I know plenty of people who didn't like Bill Clinton. The number of people who disliked George W. Bush is sad, considering he lead us through some pretty tough stuff. Perhaps not correctly, but with firm belief that what he was doing was right for the long term. There are also plenty of people who have been vocal about their dislike of Barack Obama (if I remember right he had the lowest approval rating of any re-elected president, beating George W. Bush). And this is just the presidents that have served since I was born.
We need to change the manner of our discourse with each other when our opinions differ. This country is too divided to continue in the manner it is seems to be heading in. Perhaps it is not too late, I stated in my last post that in a way, we all lost this election, let's find a way to change that around so that everybody wins. Not just the white majority, but the minorities of every stripe, America should win the election, not a party, or a person.
Monday, November 14, 2016
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
What Everyone is Talking About
Last night America, the country that I live in, elected a caricature of a human being. I find this quite saddening. Hopefully there will be no terrible or irreparable damage done to the global image of this nation. Fortunately there are systems set in place by the founding fathers of this nation that will hopefully prevent the worst things from getting through.
There are many who seem to believe that this is a step backwards, and that by electing Mr. Trump we have voted for oppression of minorities, women, and LGBTQ+. I do not think that this is entirely the case. It is not a step in the right direction, that much is given. However, it does not mean that they will become oppressed any more than they are now.
The best thing to do now is to look to the future and seek ways to prevent this type of election from ever happening again. We need to find honest, real people to run in 2020, not caricatures. I hope we can all agree that this election was arduous on us all, this cannot happen again. We must remember that a house divided against itself cannot stand. We have clearly seen, and have been seeing for far more than just this year, that we are a deeply divided nation, and social media is showing we are divided against ourselves.
I once stumbled upon a book called Unwind it was the first in a series of books. The set up of the book was that the debate on abortion escalated into a war called The Heartland War. It was basically Civil War round two. The government ended the war by saying that life began at conception and was protected until about the age of 15. At that time, if the parents chose, a person could be "retroactively aborted", but still had to remain "alive" in some sense. This process became known as "unwinding", and the various parts of the "unwound" would be grafted onto people with serious injuries. There were many people who were put up for unwinding, for several reasons. There were even some who were unwound without real cause, but as a "tithe" for status or something. At the end of the book there were several people who had been saved from unwinding and were starting to organize to try and fight for the losers of the Heartland War, which the book points out was everyone.
That is how this election has gone, and possibly would have gone either way. We, as a nation, have lost. Now we need to look to the future, and try to come together to set this right, for all of us.
There are many who seem to believe that this is a step backwards, and that by electing Mr. Trump we have voted for oppression of minorities, women, and LGBTQ+. I do not think that this is entirely the case. It is not a step in the right direction, that much is given. However, it does not mean that they will become oppressed any more than they are now.
The best thing to do now is to look to the future and seek ways to prevent this type of election from ever happening again. We need to find honest, real people to run in 2020, not caricatures. I hope we can all agree that this election was arduous on us all, this cannot happen again. We must remember that a house divided against itself cannot stand. We have clearly seen, and have been seeing for far more than just this year, that we are a deeply divided nation, and social media is showing we are divided against ourselves.
I once stumbled upon a book called Unwind it was the first in a series of books. The set up of the book was that the debate on abortion escalated into a war called The Heartland War. It was basically Civil War round two. The government ended the war by saying that life began at conception and was protected until about the age of 15. At that time, if the parents chose, a person could be "retroactively aborted", but still had to remain "alive" in some sense. This process became known as "unwinding", and the various parts of the "unwound" would be grafted onto people with serious injuries. There were many people who were put up for unwinding, for several reasons. There were even some who were unwound without real cause, but as a "tithe" for status or something. At the end of the book there were several people who had been saved from unwinding and were starting to organize to try and fight for the losers of the Heartland War, which the book points out was everyone.
That is how this election has gone, and possibly would have gone either way. We, as a nation, have lost. Now we need to look to the future, and try to come together to set this right, for all of us.
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