(#5866) Writing my daily blog posts are a struggle

      Instead of having good things to celebrate and write about if Kamala had been elected, I have bad things to be disgusted about with trump. Over the next many months it seems that the worst of what could happen is more likely than the better and best of things. If happiness could be scaled out, the current level of mine is very low. Which makes for a not so imaginative writing session each time I sit here configuring a post worthy of being written and read. I have obviously lowered my standards in order to keep a daily post written because I know the best of me is not being exposed through my writing.
     I am not angry or upset but I am bordering on those two feelings too closely. The title of my blog is Man of Hope yet the hope is being weaned out of me with each passing day. With Joe and Barack leading our nation it was like they were always in the background trying not to be like trump, who cannot find one single day to remain oblivious. With trump having to be the center of everything it makes for a burden that is so damn heavy to carry. Yet we and I must do so because the alternative of quitting is even a worse burden. We know that. However the cost of the worst always being right in front of our faces has no value nor benefit, and lessens our motivations for life.
     Which is why it is so hard to find a topic each day that has a richness of happiness and positivity. I have written over 5800 of these daily blog posts and the bulk of them have been what I hope to be insights into how our lives are fulfilled. Yet too many with trumps in charge have been less so. Which is where I am this morning. The trump dismantling of our democracy is a reckoning many of us foresaw yet not enough of us could make the effort to realize the warnings. We did this to ourselves and now we must endure the consequences of our poor decision. People like me who did not ask for this and advocated against it are also now caught up in the aftermath of the poor decision of others. We are all in this together as with any strong democracy through thick and thin yet the thin still waiting to come is what is hampering my ability to be much more upbeat about our American experience.