2016
I keep wondering. Have I ever seen a year like this? And the answer is, hmmm . . . Yes, of course.
. Famous folks died . . . think
1963
. economic screw-up . . . think
1929, or 2000, or 2008
. world in a mess . . . well, when
wasn’t it? In my brief time on this spinning globe, we have had the Great Depression, WW II, the
Korean “police action”, Vietnam, 9/11, and every year since
. a screwed up election . . . hmmmm
. . . maybe there you have something different.
I am told that the Rutherford Hayes election of 1876 bore some
similarity in terms of corruption and awful characters. Samuel Tilden won the
popular vote handily, but lost in a disputed recount process that awarded the
needed electoral votes to the republican Hayes . . . hmmm . . . sound familiar?
. And then there was that election
in 2000. Remember that one, where Florida votes had to be hand tallied, but
then our most corrupt justice in history, Tony Scalia, basically intervened to
award the presidency to George W. Bush. Remember him? And that worked out so
well, didn’t it? But still, the 2016 election is a standout. Not only did the
Drumpf lose the national vote-count, but he seems not to understand what he
actually has won. He may be our only President who can’t read.
So perhaps 2016 will go down in history as one of our more
memorable years, maybe on its own merits, but more likely based on the likely
disasters that will follow on the heels of electing the least qualified person
in American history to the most important job our nation has on its books.
Now, to be fair, we still await the outcomes in his
presidency. So, I may be writing a different kind of message at the end of
2017, assuming it is still legal to write about President Drumpf. And always assuming
that our president does not start WW IV, the “war to end all wars” because it
eliminates humankind. So, we will just have to wait and see what our “enfant-terrible”
has in store for those of us who did not actually vote for him (a majority of
voting Americans as it turns out).
So, bring it on 2017. We await your pleasure . . . or
whatever the hell you actually deliver.
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