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MineralMan

(150,710 posts)
16. Maybe. Not always.
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 03:17 PM
Tuesday

The public, meaning voters, don't always follow that rule, either. It's not that simple, by any means.

What isn't happening is voters thinking about elections and what they will mean. That a bloated man with dementia got elected twice is plenty of evidence of that. Will voters finally learn that lesson? I have no idea any longer. At 80 years of age, I'm getting closer to not having any role to play, either way. It's frustrating to see the country I've been part of wandering so widely as it goes along. You'd think we would have learned something over the past 80 years. Perhaps not. Maybe I'm overestimating the rationality of the population in general.

I'm not able to do much with regard to campaigns and elections any longer, so I guess I'll just have to cast my vote and watch the parade pass.

I hope people will wake up. I hope that for their sake. I didn't make any replacements for myself. Sometimes, now, I'm even more glad of that.

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