We seem to be
living in a bi-polar world. One day the
Democrats love Syria's Assad, the next they don’t.
One day the Republicans are concerned with Russia, the next not so
much. One day the left condemn the
Republican candidate for his refusal to promise to support the outcome of the
election, the next day they are outraged he wins and set out to overturn the
outcome of the election.
For the
average citizen, watching from the sidelines with little ability to directly
influence the outcomes, these media driven flip-flops look a lot like a
championship ping-pong game.
Of course,
most of the memes I see on social media show the outrage of the left, for that
is the big topic of the day, but given even the slightest pause there will be
outrage from the right. For example,
should even one elector change their vote you can expect to see incredible
controversy develop. From the right, it
will be the undoing of our democracy, from the left it will be disbelief that
not more electors saw the danger to the Republic of electing someone not bought and paid
for by the traditional sources.
I would like
to believe with the coming of the new year it will be over, but it won’t. I fully expect the party that spent the first
six years of its control of the Presidency blaming the past administration will
continue to challenge the legitimacy of the government in ways I cannot yet
appreciate.
We often talk
about a pendulum swinging one way and then another. As our outrage grows eventually the pendulum
will pass horizontal and fall off the hinge.
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