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Symbolism / Paul Gauguin/ Working the land

That podcast Joe so graciously referred me to has got me thinking.  

Now, Joe and Mike and my close friends have been hearing me state that I wasn’t all that worried aboutTrump, what I was worried about is what came after Trump.  This is still my mindset and the podcast that I listened to seems to bear out some of my fears.  Granted, I did expect that this would be in the four to eight years from now kinda timeframe, but it looks as though I should spend a little time unpacking the specifics of the post-trump era.  

First and foremost we are going to have to weather the “winner take all” mentality that is the name of the game in the current political climate.  I am not saying either party “started it” or which party “did it last” but we will have to get through the idea that in a split country where 48% of the population voted against you, you don’t start acting like you have a mandate.  The problem is that both parties are trying to shove an unpalatable set of prescriptions down the other half’s throat without paying any attention to the other.  

The best part about all this is when the other half complains, then the nasty comes out.  Any pushback against the Democrats and you are a racist/sexist.  Any pushback against the Republicans and you are a Communist.   

Now, I expect to be considered a racist/sexist/communist here in the none-too-distant future.  Because while Trumpy and the Republicans who used him for cover while fucking the country over didn’t move one smidgen off the mark for solving our problems.  Now that the Dem’s are at bat, the will bring back their flavor of problem avoidance and manufacture to add to those of the Republicans.  So what we will get is more of the way that we have been moving.  I am betting you that there will be a bipartisan consensus on bringing the boot down.   

Because both parties recognize that the extremes are going to upset the applecarts of the elite if things get rolling.  So expect that the censorship shown by the electronic gang will be doubled down on and the boogaloo boyz and antifa will be shown that their efforts are not appreciated in quite drastic terms.

So, I will sit back here in my secure little niche and will watch the party from the comfort of my kitchen table.  Those folks who comprise the Biden administration have a long history sending folks to jail for transgressing.  They have a history of giving the military a long leash.  They, as much as the Republican have a history of being in rich folk’s pockets.  None of them appear to be above graft.  

So, really, I don’t see any change a comin’.  I will get a check deposited soon that I didn’t earn.  The social media and the more traditional media will spin that things are rosy now that the bad man is gone.  The military will start preparing all those expensive toys that we bought them, and the FBI and law enforcement will be unleashed on the extremes.

Nope.  The party is starting….I hope like hell I am wrong….