(#5759) I almost stopped this blog

      I have now posted more than 5758 blog posts since I first started in 2009. More than 15 years of almost daily blog posts. I missed on less than 10 days but posted 2 blog posts the following day of each missed day to make up for the missed days. So essentially 15 plus years of approximately at least 300 words of writing a day. Not an easy feat. Yet to get my thoughts down into some kind of record was my goal. I liked seeing how my thoughts end up as words. Well, I am not liking how my thoughts end up as words given the horrendous outcome of this last national election. I am not as enthused as when I first began, sadly.
     I think of myself as a good person who wants everyone to have that thought about themselves. Yet I find myself in a world where the less caring are more involved in the direction of our future than the more enlightened who just don't seem to care. It is an anomaly that the less courageous and brave among us are the ones who are the most vocal about how we need to stop evolving as a species. They are more cruel and brutish in their mindsets and are determined to see that any enlightenment is only allowed under considerations that do not involve the most basic concepts of liberty and freedom. Which is in contradiction to the democracy that they were given.
     I understand that growing our democracy is necessary, yet the ones who do not want our democracy to grow are all about shrinking it. I am even concerned that the end of our democracy is a reality with the outcome of this election. Which in summation is likely why I feel like ending my continuation of this blog. Yet here I am writing it with a bit of gusto as a way to explain how I feel. I suppose each day going forward will give me more insight into what I will do but for now I am stuck between the thought that my thoughts don't seem to resonate like I thought they would even though the principles of democracy and the intelligent evolution of the human species is the only quest I have ever been on.