Hate Wins the Day

 Mr. Ginley always says I should avoid writing about politics. But today, that feels too much like fiddling while Rome burns.

I know there's absolutely nothing I can do about any of this mess our country is in. The truth is big and ugly and tears me up.

My fellow Americans voted to put a convicted felon and rapist in the White House. A criminal so vile that there's not one single positive thing that can be said about him. 

He's a big fat nasty ball of hate. He hates women. He hates minorities. He mocks people with disabilities. He calls American POWs cowards. He told people to drink bleach during COVID. And he discouraged them from getting the vaccine, although he did himself, of course. He lied and lied and lied and lied over and over and over and over.

Which leads me to wonder, what would that monster have to do for people to say that's enough, I can't vote for him? If he raped their daughter or ruined their business, would that do it? Or would the faithful simply shrug and say, "Boys will be boys. He's okay by me."

As if all this wasn't bad enough, my fellow citizens voted out Senator Brown. Sherrod Brown has been the one shining light in this blood red state. A decent man who fought valiantly for the rights of the people of our state. So who was elected instead? A car salesman who's engaged in sketchy business practices, ruined his employees, and generally just been a bad human being. 

Do we see a pattern here? Why yes, we do.

It feels like Pandora's box has been opened. Again. And while on some level I appreciate the efforts of my fellow Facebookers to come away with a positive attitude, I just can't. 

So, like many of you, I'm going to go back to my life, hunker down, and...what? Is this like the atomic drills in school where they tell you to crawl under your desk, curl up, and kiss your ass goodbye? 

Well, that's what it feels like. 

I wonder what his followers will think of him when he's dismantled our democracy.

Maybe something like, "At least he made the trains run on time."