I am old enough to have watched many nations with people as unhappy as our nation has today. Many of those nations had leadership forced upon them through intimidation and fraud. Each time it happened, I thought two things. Every single time.
- I am so thankful I live in a country where the people choose their leaders and we transfer power peacefully each time.
- What the fuck is wrong with those people? Don't they understand that if they all rose up together they could easily create their own destiny. I thought that even though I knew they were unarmed.
What I never thought, not even once, was that a single person or a single group of people that would have been rightfully elected could change anything on their own. In fact, I cannot even tell you the names of most of those leaders. They were not the solution to the people's problems. The people were.
Tomorrow, the American experiment ends. There will still be many good things in America, but above it for the first time since the revolution, will be a wholly illegitimate government passing laws that the majority do not want, and governing in ways that we have not asked for. Sadly, I must recall all the times I looked at those other countries and wondered why the people did not change things. I feel utterly ashamed that we are now those people. I never in my life thought a corrupt government could get one as big as this over on us.
Today, President Trump talked about his hope for the future. He talked about all the things America can still do. He prefaced that by saying only if the people hold America dear in their hearts. I think we do not. We are not. And we should honestly be ashamed of ourselves.