I was preparing for the worst, and hoping for the best.
Living here in the Peoples Republic of Vermont You know that your political views are in the very minority. While the results of the election is very gratifying to me they weren’t for one member of my family.
You try to instill your values in your children for 17 years. They go to college and the instructors destroy them within two semesters. Teenage rebellion, and that they believe they already know everything there is to know. Of course this is nothing new.
“If your not a liberal at 20 you have no heart. If your not a conservative at 40 you have no head” Winston Churchill
When I was in high school the indoctrination was just beginning. Teachers who had been working since the end of WW2 were retiring. They were being replaced with people in their late twenties, fresh from college.
Did a tern paper on Eugene Debs, Got an “A” on it. I guess he liked what I had to say about him. Socialism seemed very cool to me then.
Over the course of life you learn from your successes, your failures, things that might have been, and things that you would never change. And reading, lots and lots of reading.
My opinion, America has been granted a reprieve.
For now.
Obama said he “has a phone and a pen” to use for executive orders. Too bad for him Trump has a paper shredder with the in slot labeled “Obama’s executive orders”.