Today is a better day than yesterday was for me. I don't feel as let down. A large majority of our American citizenry chose not to come out and vote in our national election last Tuesday which assured a minority opinion party in our country the opportunity to take more power to lead us than we should have allowed. I accept that and today I have officially moved on from the stun of it. We are left now to feel the sting of their governing and maybe that is what we need to shock us into paying the due attention to who we elect with closer scrutiny. I would have preferred we all got involved with logic and common sense as our prod but it seems that an extra amount of self harm is needed in the mix. This isn't the type of society that I had hoped for. I had hoped that our society would be able to recognize and engage in the process in determining the best of who we can be in an equal society without having to be forced to participate. But instead what we have allowed to happen is a lessening of our current rights which will either stimulate us into rejecting those who would take bits a pieces of liberty from us or we will continue down the slippery slope of losing our democracy in order to allow a more plutocratic government to replace it. Although my faith in the overall national intelligence of our country has been shaken, it is not lost and for that I know we can still rectify our current dilemma with a new found awareness our just past election will reveal to us. Our human natures are stubborn when it comes to giving up our fears in order to serve our curiosities but as time has shown throughout our history, we Americans eventually quit looking to the past for our answers and at least for a time forge ahead into the future.
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