Cursed with Interesting Times

Nobody said that life would be easy, but nobody said it would be such a disaster as this, either.

I, for one, have been as restrained as humanly possible (given that I'm a blogger, bloggers being a population not well known for restraint), except for occasional bursts of . . . non-restraint.  Things that seem straightforward to us, appear to be highly complex to those in the parliamentary war-zones (or at least, so it appears to us).

This whole Russian thing seem silly to me; was there illegal hacking of our election equipment by the Russians?  That would be bad, but that does not seem to be what the Mueller investigation is about.  Was any attempts to compromise our election equipment instigated by our president, or on his behalf?  If there was, it seems clear grounds for getting rid of the president.  It does appear that the laws make it very difficult to get rid of a president who is determined not to be gotten rid of; in all previous cases of impeachment, it seems that the president in question simply resigned.  That isn't going to happen, as far as I can see.

But now we have a majority of Democrats, and I live in fear that we will squander that majority with senseless actions that waste our resources, and actually deliver the government into the maniacal hands of people such as Mitch McConnell, and others who ought to be placed in line for the guillotine.  We have replaced one set of agonizing circumstances for another, though this second set has more potential for re-delivering some sanity than the previous one.  Most of the freshman class of Democrat representatives are decent people with compassionate views.  I don't know whether to pray that they hold onto their compassion, or whether to pray that they become as ruthless as Madame DeFarge.  Even we atheists believe in compassion, but it seems that we ought to make a few exceptions to this prison reform initiative, and deliver Trump to the Taliban when the time comes.  (Actually, he may do very well with them.  Unfortunately.)


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