The realist's lament.

[calimary]

4. I hear ya.

I remember when the young people were utterly enraptured by George McGovern. En masse. He had their hearts. They were crazy in love. He was absolutely positively IT.

And McGovern won the nomination.

And McGovern went on to LOSE 49 STATES. Including his own (South Dakota)! He carried ONE state: true blue Massachusetts, and also Washington DC.

So how’d that hot romance with the relentless blue team renegade “lefty” maverick work out for us all? We got another four years of Nixon.

I’ve already been through that, my friends. Many of us in our 60s and 70s have personally watched that play out. I don’t claim to speak for others in my age-peer group but I DO know I DO NOT want to go through it again. It absolutely positively sucked. I freakin’ DREAD it happening again. Unfortunately I see the same thing starting to play out again. I DO NOT want history to repeat itself.

It did teach me something that I think is perhaps the most valuable lesson I personally have ever learned: whenever it comes to “head versus heart” decisions, I always go where my head tells me to. My heart can very easily be led astray (and in many really important crossroad points, it almost did - which would have resulted in a freakin’ nightmare each time). I’ve learned, for me, always trust the head. For me, it’ll be head-over-heart EVERY time.