Hopefully…the reality television presidency of Donald Trump will be over sometime next week depending on how long it takes to count the various forms of ballots.
It’s not that I dislike Donald Trump, it’s more that he’s just a person I’ve never taken seriously. He’s a rich white kid who avoided the draft and basically we would never have heard of him if he hadn’t inherited $420 million from his daddy.
His entire presidency has been about division and about himself.
Here’s the thing… I never voted for either Bill Clinton or Bush 43, but in their years after leaving the White House they’re both men I enjoy listening to from time to time.
After this election is over this country better learn to get along is all I can say.
Bill Clinton beat Bush 41 in 1992, but in the years which followed… Bill Clinton in reality became one of 41 and Barbara Bush’s sons for crying out loud.
Barack Obama became the 44th president primarily because Bush 43’s eight years in the White House were a struggle which ended with two wars and an economic collapse.
But in the years which followed….Bush 43 has behaved like a normal human being compared to Donald Trump. I read his tribute to his father and it touched me. I read the book as my own father was fighting pancreatic cancer and the warmth of his book touched me.
We as Americans all see the world through 330 million unique prisms. We do. That’s just a fact.
The Civil War II is not something we need to be using as our next model in American history.
My primary hope for Joe Biden if elected is for him to somehow become president for all 330 Americans… not just the president for those in his base.