Alive & Kickin'

[Warpy]

53. Common sense and common decency have always been in short supply

so don't expect a return to what we never really had.

What we can hope for is common disillusionment that causes the personality cultists and hero worshipers to be forced into a long, hard look at what's really on top of those pedestals and wander back to whatever lunacy they were invested in before they discovered politics.

I know it sounds a bit harsh, but I remember that the religious zealots were a hell of a lot easier to deal with before Reagan and his televangelist cronies introduced them to the worldly act of voting. They will have the easiest time returning to their former worlds, the rejection of worldly things is Step 2 for them, the first step the rejection of respect for other people's personal boundaries.

It's the few who are not religious who will have the harder time, but deprived of numbers from the religious, they will probably sink into sullen and sodden resentment. A few will act out with guns.

While we wait for the Great Disillusionment, avoiding broadcast, cable and online content that starts to turn us grouchy and stressed out is important.

Good luck on finding your own balance on that, you were missed.