Surprise! Surprise!! Here’s an updated essay concerning the election. The original version of this missive was written in 2016, but I took it and updated one or two things. Changed a few sentences here and there. Maybe things will actually calm down over the next week or so. Don’t count on it.

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Hard Wired to Deal With

Future Political Climates

You might be ready to pack it in and go through with what some feel is that idle threat of yours to move to a remote island in the South Pacific once and for all. On the other hand, you may have a huge smile on your face and regularly find yourself rubbing your palms in great anticipation continuing to make America great again. Whatever your political leanings, the never-ending election has planted the seeds of change in all of us. We’ve gone through a seismic shift (some might even call it a 12.4 Richter Scale political earthquake). The way we choose our leaders in this country has totally shifted, and there’s no going back at this point.

It’s sort of like the way you decide what clothes you’re going to put on in the morning. In the past, you used to make your choices based upon a careful consideration of what type of jobs you might have to carry out at some point during the day. If you have to pick up the kids at day care that afternoon, you’d make darn sure not to slip into that $10,000.00 silk evening gown. Particularly because the day care is hosting multiple Birthday parties on that precise day. A more practical clothing option would be that bargain basement pants suit you just bought. Chocolate stains are guaranteed to look they were intentionally put there for one thing.

The election process in America (circa 2020) has been completely altered. We no longer make our choices based on the theory and practice of “practicality”. As the guy in that classic Hollywood film, “Treasure of Sierra Madre” might’ve put it so eloquently, “Practicality? We don’t need no stinkin’ Practicality”.

Instead, everything in the election process is now based upon gut instinct. Disregard the fact that you ate an extra-large helping of spicy meatballs last night, and now your stomach is churning. Sort of like a Paper Mache sailboat trying to navigate its way through the waters of a class #6 Hurricane. Just pretend the stomach doesn’t hurt, hopefully it won’t?

If the candidate running for office says or does something completely antithetical to their political parties’ way of thinking, then so what? With today’s break-neck pace of social communication the aspirant’s comments will soon be forgotten. In fact, political pundits won’t even be talking about the formerly damaging statements a week from now. “Time heals all wounds,” basically applies in this particular situation.

This brings us to another very important change that’s taken place as a result of the election. The existence of what in the past was often referred to as; “facts”. Since this so-called “evidence” doesn’t hold much importance anymore, we can conclusively state that we should no longer considered “facts” to be a valid consideration.

This is kind of like a wildebeest that suspects it may be surrounded by lions, but can’t see or smell any of them. Using totally rational logic to consider the problem, if the creature pretends the predators aren’t there, then analytical reasoning should also tell the animal that presently the meat munchers aren’t in hiding. Does the theory make much sense? Of course it doesn’t, and that’s the way most folks like it.

Lets face it; the American election of 2020 was unlike any other in history. We can trace this to the fact that we’ve Gerry meandered the congressional districts so much that they now resemble the most convoluted jigsaw puzzle you can imagine. Fun to construct, but once it’s finished, does it really exist?

We could go on and on about all the ways the process has changed since of the latest election cycle happened. Unfortunately for you (or fortunately as the case may be), we don’t have the time to do this.

What we do have is a moment to point out one final change, and this is a very important one. Campaign bumper stickers, slogans, yard signs, and buttons contribute even more to the overall political process than they used to. We just can’t emphasize the overall importance of these items enough. In fact, future aspirates for political office throughout this great country of ours should invest a substantial sum of money in campaign paraphernalia. Just so they can enhance their chances of getting elected.

Does the fact that the writer of this missive has a relative who owns a number of print shops throughout the country? Might have something to do with the situation? Quit being so ridiculous. We need to deal with illogical things in this politicl climate