For some reason my mind alerted me today that life has become a lot more pleasant since this past January 20th. I really don’t know why this popped up now, but it was a sudden realization that the everyday bloviating and foul behavior of the former president was gone. It was like the lights had been turned back on and things were okay now.
In this, the 21st century, we have gotten used to noise in our lives. It is everywhere, a constant background hum of traffic, and voices in the street and machines moving about producing a cacophony virtually 24 hours a day. We really don’t realize this until we get out in the woods, on the plains, or someplace that the hustle of urban sprawl recedes. It’s a fact of life.
As recently as this last December and January and the four years preceding, we were confronted daily with the bombastic rhetoric of an ill-tempered know-it-all president who was all about himself and didn’t give a damn about anybody else. Given the twenty-four hour news cycle and the miracle of digital communication, this had to have been the nadir of American politics to date.
Our politics are still broken, but the hard edge has been excised without the orange-haired “gasbag” in the White House. The unrelenting noise is gone. Yes, there is still the bickering and outrageous stuff between the parties. The Democrats, heady with success and ambition, will have their screw ups and the Republicans will continue their histrionics while trying to find themselves.
A palpable sense of relief has settled over the land. Even die-hard conservatives must secretly be relieved and happy that the “noise” is gone.
God Bless America!
Amen!
Amen, yes, Barbara, but as one reader mentioned the gasbag will be back, probably sooner than later, making noises on Facebook! How long do you think Twitter can hold out?