(#6178) 2026, the year in which we know what to expect!

      Let me just say happy new year to all who read this blog. 2025 was a tough year to live through if you have a decent bone in your body. If you don't have a decent bone in your body then last year was as good as it got for you. However, the vast majority of us are good folks deep down and although we were knocked down a couple of times we got back up and continued fighting. If you were like me you didn't celebrate the new year in any traditional way because of the disheartened feeling most of us carry around since the last presidential election. Those that did celebrate with vigor in my neighborhood were the ones who are oblivious to the feeling of losing our democracy the rest of us have or are uncaring in ways that speaks to their own personal human deficiencies.
     I am not saying it is wrong to celebrate the new year, I am just saying that if anything it should have been a subdued one. Because most of us are still in the gut punch mode. Regardless though we are now into the new year and the gut punch phase of what happened in 2024 is receding. What is coming into its voided place is a growth of optimism about what is going to happen in November when the midterms take place. We know the momentum has shifted away from republicans in a dramatic way. We know that many federal courts are still hindering trump and his bootlickers in important ways. What we also know is that we the people are not frivolous in our feelings about reversing the damage republicans have done. We are furious and that is not going to stop!
     What we also know is that trump is going to lie and cheat everywhere he can and that we know is fact. That isn't a question any more after all we have been through in 2025. We know that we are done with him and nothing he does going forward will ever change our minds. All of us must remain vigilant to the cheating that is surely coming like with mail in ballots not being postmarked upon the day of mailing but when it is actually looked at in the post offices. Why would anyone change that distinction if they weren't trying to deny some mail in ballots? We know about it though so mail in your ballots way early or deliver them to your county drop boxes or public election offices. We the people must stay on our toes so that this coming election is the true protection of our democracy!