Subject: Re: Just Three Months Ago
Just three months ago I was optimistic that my country would put hatred and ignorance behind us and would reject this sociopathic narcissist criminal and return to some semblance of sanity.

Unfortunately, too many of my fellow citizens could not bring themselves to vote for a competent woman of mixed race. So we’re back to incompetence and hatred and selfishness.

I have decided to deal with my angst in the following way:

I think I am right that this administration is going to be the most corrupt, most venal, and most incompetent in the history of the American experiment (and that says a lot if you remember Richard Nixon, Millard Fillmore, Warren Harding, Andrew Johnson and others, and including the grotesque era of the Dred Scott decision).

But perhaps there is a chance I am wrong. The previous four year term of Trump showed nothing but dysfunction, chaos, and corruption = but maybe it will be different this time. I am prepared to say “I was wrong” if he manages to turn it around, unite, not divide the citizenry, and enact policies which move the country forward.

While I put the probabilities of that in the low tenths-of-one-percent range, I’ll admit anything is possible these days. Perhaps Greenland surrenders without a fight, and we discover huge mineral reserves or something. Maybe he starts a Forest Corps which goes out and gets rid of all the scrub in California so there are never any fires again. Maybe his threats of tariffs against China convince them to abandon their progress and sink back to a subservient role in world affairs.

You know, maybe…

Again, any outcome is possible. Meanwhile, acting on my primary instincts, I have installed a whole house generator, hired a private security force, stocked up with 2 years worth of oatmeal, have 47 Uzi’s at the ready, turned off the TV, and plan to live like a hermit until someone tells me it’s safe to come out again.

Please be that person. I’ll wait here.