Year: 2020

Many of us, no doubt, are exhausted from keeping up with the recent election. Still, we are caught up in the aftermath as the president’s intransigence drags on like a bad dream. For my part, I have been seeking a respite from the uncertainty and absurdity by taking long walks in the woods with the…

This article is courtesy of a Canadian friend who sent it to me after reading yesterday’s post.  It strikes me as especially significant as it gives the view of our long time friends and closest neighbors.  Sometimes our friends elsewhere see our politics more clearly than we do. Reprint of article below from The Globe and…

As I thought about what I would write today, a flood of topics came to mind including the possibility that the president could have won reelection if he had not been himself.  If he had not acted as he has and had he stepped up to the challenge of the pandemic things might have turned…

For a long time now, well before the 2016 election, I have thought that it was time to rethink the nature and composition of our two major political parties. The last true realignment of parties was way back in 1854 when the present Republican Party was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin. The Republican Party was founded…

I never thought that the Democrats would win Georgia this year. I remain as stunned as people elsewhere by the possibility of Biden winning Georgia. Win or lose, it appears the state might be tilting toward the Democrats. The two outstanding Senate contests seem to confirm this. My shock harkens back to my experience here…

I’ve been hoping to write these words for months now as the campaign and election unfolded. Apparently the tortuous and embarrassing presidency of Donald Trump is over. There is much to do, of course, but starting in January, there can be a new beginning for all Americans. The pundits have already begun writing what the…

This morning the news was not heartening. I really thought that overnight there would be a change in the vote with another state or two tallied up. Instead, the votes had narrowed, and there was stalemate. More disheartening was the undeniable fact that the state of politics in this country has not been helped by…

This morning I lingered in bed longer than usual knowing that when I retired last evening the stars were not aligning for the Democrats. When I did emerge this morning, however, I was welcomed by a beautiful fall morning accented by bright sunlight streaming through the trees. I will take that as a good omen…

Almost everyone has noted that this election is an extraordinary one. On that, at least, we agree. The truth is that there are two elections taking place tomorrow, November 3, 2020. One is the usual contest between real conservatives and liberals about the nature of the government, whether it should play a larger or smaller…

The current controversy over voting is embarrassing and frightening: embarrassing because we were brought up thinking voting was only a problem in other countries, and  frightening because there appears to be real and concerted efforts to suppress the vote in the 2020 election. For these reasons President Carter and international groups have supervised election results…