At least in the Republican party
Still way too much going on, too many votes to recount, fraud to uncover, prime time hosts to make money, the disconnect of what people want to hear and what people are actually seeing with their eyes, the pretentious left feeding the machine and inciting even more madness, because after four years of Trump being ridiculed the Trump team is going to get their turn, so we sit through four more years of hate and animosity coming from both sides all trying to make their side feel good.
Biden might hold himself up above the fray, but he won’t get anything done. McConnell will make sure of that, unless some miracle happens and the Democrats win two Senate seats in Georgia. Last time miracles actually happened was around 2000 years ago, so McConnell is maybe slightly concerned, but overall will keep any legislation that will change anything tightly wrapped up in whatever committee hell or maybe not even that far along in the process hell so the Republicans can come storming back in 2024. And that election is already underway whether Trump throws his hat in the ring or not.
So what is next. Even a Stimulus package is a far flung pipe dream right now. Trump won’t negotiate, McConnell will gloat, Pelosi will pontificate, and people will die, starve, become disenchanted, alt right conspiracies will only grow in number, content and scope and Don McLean’s song American Pie will take on a new haunting meaning. So yeah, try and have a good day, but...
Many of us will go back to work, pay our taxes, complain about our taxes and the light bill, complain about government, complain about socialists, complain about Qanon, complain about media figures, complain about alt right madness, and generally be the same as they were two weeks ago, but with no election to complain about and still not make enough, still not have decent healthcare, still not have retirement planned, still worry about social security, still worry about potholes, still worry about computers in the classroom, still worry about their kids going to the classroom, still trying to decide if they should cook at home since restaurants aren’t safe, but actually deciding what drive through they can stomach now and burn gasoline like it isn’t polluting the atmosphere waiting in the double line now, and generally wanting a sense of normalcy to return to their lives.
Too bad 2020 happened. We aren’t going back, some may hopefully get to move forward, others will still fight against hate, there are changes that have occurred that affects our daily lives, some productive some just as wasteful as what we did in 2019, and all in all most of us will live with the changes and what didn’t change hoping to find that infamous “meaning” to our lives.
Am I a bit melancholy tonight, depressed, realistic, pessimistic, tired, downtrodden, definitely not jovial, upbeat, optimistic, dreaming, energized, or maybe I am buried beneath a velour cloth too frazzled to shed something soft for the moment and deal with the reality that 2020 is coming to an end, and yet that won’t mean a damn thing because Trump and this pandemic ain’t going away anytime soon.
We still need change. And like it or not we didn’t get it.
If there was ever a year we didn’t need to elect a Democrat or Republican this was the year.
And yet, I am proud of this country. Highest voter turn out in over a hundred years and maybe even more. For as much as I rail against the duopoly the duopoly showed up this election season. It does say something. There is still a third of eligible voters that didn’t vote so who knows why, but maybe someone could have received that vote and changed us. For good or bad, that is not something we will know. Or at least for now.
Both parties will go back to failing us, but for right now, that is what this country wants. One day maybe enough of us will realize that change ain’t so bad.
Stay safe, stay home, keep cooking, and if you have to go to work, keep your head up and your mask on.
Cheers
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