A Black Comedy of Errors [View all]

[MineralMan]

We're in for it, now and for the near future. We left both houses of Congress in the hands of Republicans. We elected a mindless narcissistic asshole as President and a slimy, poisonous salamander as VP. We can see that clearly and there's not much we can do about it now. How it happened is no longer the point, really. Not enough people voted for our candidate, for whatever reason. And there you have it. We're not going to reverse the election. That's not going to happen.

It's going to be ugly, whatever happens down the road. We will be governed by no-nothings and unscrupulous old men who want to return to a time that never actually existed in the past. None of those people who won this year gives a good goddamn about the people who will suffer from their bad decisions. As far as our new leadership is concerned, they can just die, and good riddance to them. Their health care options will be gone and there aren't going to be those "jobs" candidates promised.

It's a cosmically bad joke that we played on ourselves. For a lot of people, not much will change. They have all sorts of privilege, due to race, age, gender, sexual orientation and other factors. They won't be fatally injured by the rolling disaster that will be Trump's legacy. For the rest of America, it's going to be a bad, bad time, and many actually will die due to program cuts, emboldened bigots, racists and misogynists. But nobody in this new government will give a single crap about the harm they cause.

Will we learn from this? Who knows? We should have foreseen it and swept Hillary Clinton into office and gotten the Senate back. But, we did not do that. We didn't vote, or we skipped the Presidential race, or we voted for some phony alternative candidate. At least some of us did those things. Enough did those things to make Trump's win possible. And now we will pay for our folly. It's a big, awful joke.

I'm not laughing, though. I don't laugh at misfortune and malfeasance. I'm old, now, and realize that I have zero clout. I won't be laughing at what is about to happen. I'll simply be depressed, but I'll try to do what I can to help those who are harmed. I don't know how effective I'll be, but I'll try. As long as I'm here and able to, anyhow.

This is a black comedy. Some, indeed, will be laughing. Their maniacal laughter may be the crowning blow that this election has dealt to us. I'm pissed. I'm tired. I'm saddened. I wish us all luck. I wish this planet luck. I wish for everyone who is young to wake up and get smart really quickly. That might save things. I don't know.

Sorry to be a downer on this Sunday morning, but that's my opinion.

Thanks for reading it.