House of Dreams

Here at least I have the freedom to express political opinion.  I made the error of noting the upcoming celebration of hope with the Biden win, only to have a very ignorant, uneducated trump supporter berating me.  berating me on my own Facebook feed. That was a lesson in decorum and mincing my words.  I loathed the fact that she - let's call her Karen - said something along the lines of 'with all due respect (and we all know when someone starts a sentence with that expression they're hiding behind further inept currency of language). She noted that 'with all due respect' the count won't be over till the Supreme Court ruling.  

Ha. When the 50 court cases were thrown out, and the second Supreme Court ruling dismissed the idiotic election fraud claims, Karen who originally berated me on my Facebook didn't have the fortitude or courage to say that she accepted the final ruling. I did the only thing I could, which was to unfriend her. Awkward though, as her sister in law is one of my best friends and married to an American Airlines pilot (Karen's brother no less). But that's politics for you, dividing us all in our sub sections of left and right. I am impatient and loathing of the fact that I want to make more comments on FB but can't be asked to defend them or use up my energy in telling off those who harbour right wing fantasies of election fraud. I am so over these idiots. 

I wish, truly I do, that I could decommission the countless millions of gratuitous, self serving, lacking brain and logic, elements of the human race that reside as Trump supporters. What of the divisive rhetoric Trump yells at his base can ever be seen as presidential? He challenge countless norms, it hurts my brain and my sense of existence. How will history remember this fucked up individual? I hope history won't be kind, and that the hypocritical GOP senators fueling this behaviour are held accountable. What hope can we entertain though with a system of government, and internal divisions crippling the governance process at the highest level of government.  I want to have the freedom, on this page, to note how broken, how backwards, self-serving the system is in the US. Falling of their pedestal, they've wrapped themselves in a version of reality that other nations observing the calamity that is the Divided States of America, can only perceive them for the fools they are.  Constitutional norms be damned. There is no longer any morale or philosophical leveller in that fractured country.