Well the election is over but the argument carries on. Biden won Trump lost and the country is still divided. Let’s hope it does not stay that way.

Like a lot of people in this country 4 years ago I was shocked that we would elect Donald Trump as President. An admitted pussy grabbing man who bragged about going back stage at a Miss Teenage American Pageant to look at the girls in various stages of undress. Some of those girls were as young as 15 years old. He paid off Porn Stars and the Christian Right made it sound like he was the next messiah. I was like what in the hell is going on here. He was making the Church a joke and an institution of hate with his racism and they embraced him. I know not all but way too many to be comfortable. My friend and Episcopal Minister and a great man was not fooled. Over breakfast we did have a couple of conversation on this.

Well after the initially shock I said to myself let’s give him a chance. Maybe he will do ok. Businessmen generally higher people that will make him look good so maybe he will bring in the best and the brightest. Well he didn’t do that. His administration has been like a revolving door.

When he campaigned that he would build a wall I thought that he really wouldn’t do that. It was a waste of money and it wouldn’t solve the problem. Sure enough he actually takes money destine for our Military so he can build he wall. Most of our illegal immigrants come in through legal ports on entry so what does a wall fix? Well nothing. Maybe he just wanted a monument to his racism. My real problem is that people that I knew and respected were ok with that racism. Now a lot of people have blamed Trump for making Racism mainstream. Well I disagree. It was alive and well when that congressman from South Carolina yelled at President Obama “You Lie” during a state of the Union Address. I believe that would have never happened if Obama had been white and the fact that more people from both parties were not outraged is very telling. The fact his fund raising increased after the incident also tells you a lot about racism in America.

One of the first things he did was take on NATO. Now he was demanding that the other counties live up to their end of the bargain and increase their defense spending. I thought great! Maybe we won’t have to foot as much of the bill and we could lower our defense spending. That made good sense to me. Well he then wanted to increase our spending too. Now we were all ready spending as much as the next 7 countries combined so that didn’t make a lot of sense to me. We have Allies so we can share the burden. It turns out he was just like all the other republicans that spend money like drunken sailors when they are in power and then become fiscally conservative when the other guy is in power. Give tax cuts to the rich and increase spending is not very fiscally sound.

What is happening in this country now is the most shocking. Our Country was founded on representative government. That is what we fought a war with Britain over. We wanted the right to vote for representatives in the British government. So here we are after election that has shown no evidence of fraud and people are screaming Fraud. Of course there is no proof on fraud but there must be because their guy lost. What is really happening is the tearing down of our democracy which I do think is being done on purpose. The use of the internet to spread lies and manipulate the public is a huge problem.

Where are the Patriots? Where are the defenders of our system, our way of life? As it turns out there is not enough of them in the Republican Party. There use to be.