Isn't this incredible?

"How can voting be fair?" an African Chief commented. (This was in the 60s when a supposed democratic government tried to be in place.) You have the elders who have been around the block (through the jungle) a few times, although there few few of them left because viruses, parasites and starvation killed most of them off. And you have the young ones who quickly say, "Let's vote." The elders say we ought to have a discussion. The young ones get impatient, call for a vote, and you end up with a 48 to 52 win. The winner takes all.

That way half of the country is angry.

On top of it, the leadership in the country was put into effect by outside forces, so it wasn't fair in the first place; chances are unscrupulous people had rigged the voting process, and then a divided country turned on itself, the government cut stipends to workers, people had no money, people were desperate to find food, were dying of starvation, and there was chaos in the land, while the one in power was spending millions building himself a castle.

The chief was trying to get virtually 100% in favor—although that's not possible, but a point to consider.

And so we at home in America have half the country mad at the dismantling that is happening, mad that prices, which they believed would go down, but find instead are going up, tariffs that are angering our shippers of foreign goods of which we need and want, and the increased foreign prices will go to us. Workers of essential jobs are being fired right and left, while the President is taking his entourage and playing golf, and using Air Force One, the plane of which the logistics of is costing taxpayers millions of dollars, and the people go home to have a mental breakdown.

Does that sound like leadership to you?

I'm not saying that some things don't need to change. I'm saying that letting business people run the country, people who are intimidating because of their position so people suck up to them, men who are used to having their way—bosses, you might say—who control their own companies, that negotiate when it means pleasing their suppliers, CEO's who can fire and hire at will, all to save their product, their money, and to please their stockholders, are not the people to run the country.

John F Kennedy said that the one who governs best is the best governor. (Open to debate what the best is, but poignant.) ( How in the world did Martin Luther King Jr. convince a horde of people that non-violent resistance was the way to go?) Oh, we will get healthier; supposedly, anti-vaccers will have their sway, childhood diseases will come back, and what about Diphtheria, Smallpox, and Polio, which were virtually eradicated from the earth?

Well, people, is that what you voted for? All because you didn't like black people or Hispanics, or Immigrants, or the previous administration (You know, throw the bums out principle.) You didn't like the way they were handling the wars overseas or that you thought vaccines were giving children autism. Pharmaceutical companies were overcharging you (they are), and while you are at it, let's discredit Scientists who are working their butts off trying to learn how it all works. And, forget the Forest Rangers trying to manage our wild spaces and the life forms that are precious to us.

This is craziness.

Although I know most of us felt overwrought and needed to do something, a drastic change occurred. Couldn't we find honest people to do it?

So, you are angry and want to tear things down. Well, go to the dump and beat up an old refrigerator. (Except that will probably get you arrested.)

No, go into your backyard, dig up the soil, and plant some vegetables so you can get fresh, nutritious food that is not sprayed with chemicals. And buy some ladybugs to eat some predators who will love your veggies. Or keep some bees that will help pollinate those fruit trees you will plant.

And then bring back common decency.