I was thinking this morning about what to write and for some strange reason, I realized that the current situation in the USA is like a line right out of literature. Practically every person who graduated from high school over the last 50 years knows this quote:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
This is the opening sentence of A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. It is also a pretty accurate description of contemporary America. There are those, like me, who are ecstatic that we will finally see the end of moronic but politically correct rule of progressivism in Washington. America is about to be run to BENEFIT the mass of the American people with economic growth and freedom rather than to benefit the government and the elites who pompously but foolishly think they know better. Then there are those who see the defeat of Hillary Clinton and the end of Democrat and leftist power as the onset of the end times. These are the same people who told us that president Obama would bring hope and change, something that never happened. Now, however, when President Elect Trump is clearly a harbinger of major change, these people have switched to non-stop lamentation about those changes. You see change is only a good thing if it doesn't alter anything and it leaves them in permanent control.
It's going to be a very interesting few years.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
This is the opening sentence of A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. It is also a pretty accurate description of contemporary America. There are those, like me, who are ecstatic that we will finally see the end of moronic but politically correct rule of progressivism in Washington. America is about to be run to BENEFIT the mass of the American people with economic growth and freedom rather than to benefit the government and the elites who pompously but foolishly think they know better. Then there are those who see the defeat of Hillary Clinton and the end of Democrat and leftist power as the onset of the end times. These are the same people who told us that president Obama would bring hope and change, something that never happened. Now, however, when President Elect Trump is clearly a harbinger of major change, these people have switched to non-stop lamentation about those changes. You see change is only a good thing if it doesn't alter anything and it leaves them in permanent control.
It's going to be a very interesting few years.
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