I better not be nostalgic for TFG in a few years [View all]

[EnergizedLib]

Remember the nightmare that was W? Maybe it’s because I was an adolescent/teenager for most of his time in the White House, but those eight years seemed to drag on forever and ever, and it seemed like we’d be stuck in Iraq forever as I wondered how people could vote for such a dolt. I was ecstatic at his departure.

Then Sarah Palin happened, Rush, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, a bunch of complete nuts ran for Congress and I realized people were, indeed, dumber than Dubya.

When Pennsylvania was called for TFG in 2016, I’d gotten only one hour of sleep, was too horrified to go back to bed, was so distraught that I couldn’t fall back asleep. For four years, I’d found myself willing to beg W. on my hands knees to get rid of TFG. I was nostalgic for him because as awful as he was, America had fallen for a con man whose intellect and empathy and compassion were no existence. As awful as Bush was, I never felt he was openly malicious or mean spirited.

Now, millions want the wannabe dictator from Floridastan to replace President Biden. What’s so appealing about Fascism? Nazism? Here’s someone such an antithesis to the freedoms and Constitution they pretend to revere, and this is what happens when you choose emotion over logic.

Regarding Don’t Say Gay, should children be exposed to explicit sexual content? In my opinion, no. Should, however, kids be taught people are different and they should show respect and tolerance to all? Absolutely. There’s nothing wrong about telling kids gays exist without going in depth on what happens behind closed doors.

It’s the same thing with the school lunch debate or sex education - that parents should decide what kids eat, that parents should teach their kids about sex.

There’s only one problem with that - parents often don’t do their jobs as parents. Parents are neglectful, abusive, don’t do the things they should. The things kids learn aren’t confined to a textbook or curriculum alone, and just because parents fail their children, why should the system, our government, fail said children?

I will always resent what happened in 2016, even if I live to be 100 and there’s never another Republican in the White House in my lifetime again.

But knowing that we could be a few years away from DesantisStan and he could be even more dangerous than TFG is a scary thought. If it happens and it gets so bad that I beg for TFG, I learned that it could, indeed get worse than W. I’m aware now that it can get worse than TFG.

And thus, it shows the bottomless pit the other side has become, no low is too low.