I have to admit……this cooler definitely surprised me!
I have to admit……this cooler definitely surprised me!
In a lot of ways, the society we live in now is nowhere near as happy as when I grew up.
You have to understand that when I grew up, it was before the internet and social media. People used to have to talk to each other, we didn’t have caller ID, and we went to the arcades to play competitive video games. Our families bought our own school supplies and helped make our Halloween costumes when we couldn’t afford the ones in the store. We learned to appreciate what we had, and didn’t expect people to cater to our whining all the time (yes, I quantified that).
Now, granted some good has come from technological advances, but it’s brought some baggage along with it that really isn’t needed. I may have actually gotten to the point where I don’t go out anymore because if I hear one more special snowflake whine about some stupid thing that’s beyond their control, I may just lose it. People have become bitter, entitled, butt-hurt trolls that just love to complain.
That’s not the world I was raised in. We were taught things like self-respect, common courtesy, and some common sense – things that seem to have become lost, and that……is the real tragedy.
Now git off mah lawn!
So what will happen next week? What the results are would be anyone’s guess.
We have two people – that we apparently wanted to have run against each other. I’m starting to think this was a stunt done on a drunken dare to see how ridiculous of a match-up we could get to run our country for the next four to eight years. Well, whoever thought of this idea apparently got it to work, because it just doesn’t get any more ridiculous than this.
In one corner, we have someone who has been accused of having classified email on a private server and has done other things that have not been good for this country – oh, but have you noticed it’s the email that they are harping about constantly? They’ve investigated Hilary at least seven times about Benghazi – not once having been able to prove her guilty of anything.
In the other corner, we have someone who has been called sexist, racist, a bigot, a homophobe, and a hothead – on many occasions. This is a guy who blows up over a Twitter post, and yet people want him as Commander-in-Chief? Make America great again? Only if he gets fired……….if he even wins. How would that be for irony? Donald…..you’re fired!
So to me, there is no real good choice here. Of course, if you vote for a third-party at this time, it would have to be a unified effort of monolithic proportions that would dwarf any of the other totals……..which we know at this point wouldn’t happen. Why? We’ve become complacent and apathetic. We’ve become accustomed to the country being in the toilet and decades behind the times in advancing the betterment of all that we’re used to it, and really don’t want to change.
Oh……..you say we do? Well, why aren’t you showing it? Why aren’t you getting more in larger crowds and voting? Our voter turnout is pathetic to say the least. You can’t gripe if you don’t cast your vote. Yes, you are only one person, but count that up by as many people as don’t care anymore, and you get a pretty staggering number. I’ll be there in line casting my voice, but will it be enough to count to sway the vote the way I would hope it would? Maybe………but at least I’ve done my part.