Trump Trepidation
Studies say the most depressing day of the year is today – the third Monday in January. The holidays are over, winter has set in and it’s, well, Monday.
But this year many, and maybe most, Americans say the most depressing day will be the third Friday, when Trump is inaugurated.
Both days come this week. So both the Depression Meter and the Fear and Loathing Meter are at all-time highs.
The week starts with honoring Martin Luther King and ends with swearing in, or swearing at, Trump.
(Trump celebrated MLK Day by attacking John Lewis as “all talk.” When Trump gets brutally beaten for standing up for civil rights, he can talk about John Lewis.)
Trump is a fraud, but he’s a good one. He has defrauded people throughout his business career, and now he has defrauded Americans into electing him President.
A lot of good people who knew his faults voted for him because they want change or more jobs or to be safe from terrorists. A lot of bad people voted for him because they don’t like certain other people or because they just wanted to give the finger to whatever “elites” and “establishment” they hate: politicians, big business, academics, the media, whomever.
Think of Trump as a great big middle finger to half of America. (Or, maybe, a little-bitty middle finger.)
You try to be optimistic. Maybe all the billionaires and Goldman Sachs big shots he appointed will keep him from wrecking the economy and our IRAs. Maybe all his generals will keep us out of a war and protect us from Putin.
You can let it drive you crazy. You can watch cable news all day, get jacked up with your friends on Facebook and Twitter, and drive your blood pressure sky-high by following every Trump tweet.
Or you can tune him out, turn off the news and try the Zen approach one wise friend recommends. He says, “In the Universe, all things are always in motion. Nothing stays the same. This, too, shall pass.”
You can wait for the pendulum to swing. It always does in politics.
On October 10, a month before the election, another wise friend, D.G. Martin, wrote this at a time when Trump’s election looked impossible:
“Most Democrats are happy that Donald Trump’s campaign is stumbling.
“But some, looking at the long term, might think that a Trump win next month would be a good thing. Not for the country, they would explain, but for the future of the Democratic Party….
“If Trump were to win and become president, he would provoke anti-Trump and anti-Republican voters in the 2018 and 2020 elections, which would be monumental, surpassing even the anti-Obama reaction in 2010.”
Keep hope alive. And pray for our country.
Trump Trepidation
Studies say the most depressing day of the year is today – the third Monday in January. The holidays are over, winter has set in and it’s, well, Monday.
But this year many, and maybe most, Americans say the most depressing day will be the third Friday, when Trump is inaugurated.
Both days come this week. So both the Depression Meter and the Fear and Loathing Meter are at all-time highs.
The week starts with honoring Martin Luther King and ends with swearing in, or swearing at, Trump.
(Trump celebrated MLK Day by attacking John Lewis as “all talk.” When Trump gets brutally beaten for standing up for civil rights, he can talk about John Lewis.)
Trump is a fraud, but he’s a good one. He has defrauded people throughout his business career, and now he has defrauded Americans into electing him President.
A lot of good people who knew his faults voted for him because they want change or more jobs or to be safe from terrorists. A lot of bad people voted for him because they don’t like certain other people or because they just wanted to give the finger to whatever “elites” and “establishment” they hate: politicians, big business, academics, the media, whomever.
Think of Trump as a great big middle finger to half of America. (Or, maybe, a little-bitty middle finger.)
You try to be optimistic. Maybe all the billionaires and Goldman Sachs big shots he appointed will keep him from wrecking the economy and our IRAs. Maybe all his generals will keep us out of a war and protect us from Putin.
You can let it drive you crazy. You can watch cable news all day, get jacked up with your friends on Facebook and Twitter, and drive your blood pressure sky-high by following every Trump tweet.
Or you can tune him out, turn off the news and try the Zen approach one wise friend recommends. He says, “In the Universe, all things are always in motion. Nothing stays the same. This, too, shall pass.”
You can wait for the pendulum to swing. It always does in politics.
On October 10, a month before the election, another wise friend, D.G. Martin, wrote this at a time when Trump’s election looked impossible:
“Most Democrats are happy that Donald Trump’s campaign is stumbling.
“But some, looking at the long term, might think that a Trump win next month would be a good thing. Not for the country, they would explain, but for the future of the Democratic Party….
“If Trump were to win and become president, he would provoke anti-Trump and anti-Republican voters in the 2018 and 2020 elections, which would be monumental, surpassing even the anti-Obama reaction in 2010.”
Keep hope alive. And pray for our country.