ELECTION BLUES

A year ago I was dreading the beginning of another election season.  It would be all the partisan bickering all over again.  Even though it continues all the time anyway, it gets worse during election season.  Now this is worse than I ever imagined it could be.  The Republican party has gone totally insane.  The idea of any of these candidates becoming President of the United States is appalling. Now I understand how Hitler seized power in Germany.  When millions of people are very stressed economically, they look for lunatics to save them.  It was Wall Street and the Banks that brought down the entire world economy.  The taxpayers bailed out Wall Street.  But no one has bailed out the taxpayers.  They are hurting.  They are desperate.  And because of all that, we could end up with some one like Donald Trump as president.  He appears to have no comprehension of what is going on in this country or in the world.

Hillary is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable candidates ever to run for president.  Yet, this year no one wants a knowledgeable or experienced person.  Everyone wants a lunatic.  In 2004, Robert Reich wrote a book called REASON.  In effect, he said that reason will save us.  People will not want lunacy. At the time, I was encouraged by this thought.  But he was wrong.  People do not want reason.  The Republican Party prefers lunacy.  If they can't win by rational arguments, they have found that they can win by insane ideology.  They can't out think liberals, so they will out-lunatic us.

I have often heard people say, "What is this world coming to?"  Now I truly fear for America.