We're at the end of the month that saw perhaps the most consequential election of if not our nation, at least our lifetime. Quite frankly I'm at a loss for words.
In my last post I mentioned a friend who voted for Donald Trump. In challenging him I brought up the insurrection after Trump refused to accept defeat in the 2020 election.
My friend's response?
"What's that?"
I said: "you know what happened at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021."
He said to me and I quote: "Oh you're not going to hold THAT against him?"
In a post-election radio interview, one of the authors of the book "How Democracies Die" either Steven Levitsky or Daniel Ziblatt, can't remember which one, said that the public cannot be held responsible for preserving a democracy, rather it is the responsibility of democratic institutions, and the people placed in charge of them.
If that's the case, then God help us.
For me, I tuning out of politics for now, as I'm trying to mend a broken heart, quite seriously.
Fatalistic as it sounds, let's hope for the best and expect the worst.
See you next month.
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