It all becomes real today. That person will become President of the United States of America and there is nothing we can do about it. We can share our shock with the rest of the world. We can ridicule the corrupted system that allowed it to happen. Finding fault is so much a fool’s game.
There is little consolation in that this despicable person was not the popular choice. All he won were the states necessary to win the key electoral votes. If it makes you feel any better, he had no reason to expect to win either. The situation during the election confused the candidates, their teams, the pollsters, the news media and the pundits. We all got it wrong.
In the last week of the campaign, we saw him as an angry, rude and truculent child. He was bitter and sensing defeat. There was no consolation.
What bothers us is that the stupid people who voted for him were under the impression that he would have some adults around to keep him from really screwing things up. Who has he ever listened to before, other than his father?
America just gave him the keys to the family car. At what point in time do you think he is going to learn how to drive?
He could become the first American President to attempt to break more laws than he signs into existence. Our fondest hope at this time is that his Republican Congress becomes so annoyed with him that they impeach him.
But it is hard to judge the competence of either the Administration or the Congress after that disgusting 2016 election. It was as though there was a pact between the voters and the candidates to disregard any attempt at civility, decency, honesty or good manners. From a political point of view the entire process was a disgrace from beginning to end.
It was an election that should leave all Americans feeling ashamed. That boor was allowed to stand on platforms all over America and turn obvious lies into a vulgar mantra. Not even the creator of the big lie technique, Dr. Joseph Goebbels (1897 – 1945), would have believed that people would be so gullible. It seems just enough Americans were.
We have heard that today’s inauguration speech by the new President will have precedents in inauguration speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. We do hope the speech writers for the new President know the difference between quoting and plagiarism.
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