In fourth or fifth grade, I’m not sure which, I encountered a rock fight in a vacant lot as I walked from school to my part time job as a clean-up boy at the local movie theater. I knew several participants on either side and I remember thinking how stupid it was for my friends to be throwing rocks at each other. For whatever reason, I thought I could stop the rock fight by standing in between the warring factions and appealing for reason. You can guess the outcome. The barrage from both sides left me bloody and demoralized.
As an ordinary citizen, without any power except my vote, this is pretty much how I am feeling about our political process right now. I’m standing in the middle of a juvenile rock fight, looking from one side to the other, and thinking how stupid it is to be trading insults, bemoaning the intractability of the other side, creating fake news reports, and generally wreaking havoc with reason and rationality.
Could you all please stopping tossing boulders and get something accomplished?
Duke
To my regular readers, apologies for the rant . . .
No apology necessary, many of us feel the same way. We used to “agree to disagree” and move on. Looking for common ground and working from there. We can only hope for a good outcome.
The difficulty with those rock throwers today is, they have grown older, but no wiser. They have absolutely no, zip, zilch desire to mature. They are comfortable with throwing their rocks. Reason and rationality are words outside of rock throwing and they want no part of them. We need to stand tall and hang on tight and fight the good fight.
Oh I don’t know, seems to me the adults have come home. Donald Trump lowered himself to leftist tactics to beat leftists. You must fight fire with fire, no one else on this planet could have beaten that machine. Having said that, the machine has been beaten,broken and although they don’t know it, reduced to yelling and screaming and lying. The light is shinning on this new administration and I for one welcome that light. Dad just came home and the kido’s are in REAL trouble. “wait and watch”
I welcome CHANGE.