(#6090) We can learn a lot from sports

      I recently paid attention to a game where in the first half of a football game one team played about as awful as they could. But in the second half they played about a well as they could and when the final second ticked off and ended the game they found that they won by just enough. This reminds me of our current political dilemma. Somehow we voted into office a really bad person and he is living up to his bad reputation. But it seems like in the football game just referenced, after being duped by a disreputable grifter we are fighting back against his rhetoric and actions.
     Now it is too early to say how this dilemma of ours in the political arena will play out but my guess is that when we the people put our energy behind a common cause we are highly likely to succeed. It is still early on in the metaphorical second half but the impetus is now on our side. Although the degenerate is still causing havoc we are not sitting on our hands fretting over the outcome. We are actively fighting back and even some of those who supported the cruel one are now turning from him and speaking out against him. That is what turning the tide is! Defections from the cloud of confusion into the clarity of reality.
     For those who say emotions are not important I will remind them if you make us emotionally angry you will learn just how badly you judged emotion. Many of us are very clear on the subject of democracy and what it entails and we will not let a grifting conman take it from us. The many of us know that stopping what we are doing in order to preserve freedom, liberty, and justice is greater than the everyday mundane of existing in a world without those virtues. I can feel the momentum of a reinvigorated electorate and with a catalyst like defending democracy vividly clear, we the people are on it. We may have lost the first half of this surreal governance but we are not going to lose the whole of it once the final second ticks off.