The basis of the United States of America has been corruption, incompetence, dishonesty, ignorance, and vulgarity for four long years. Crassness has been the American way. Divisiveness has replaced diplomacy. We took the idea of the Ugly American and elevated it in concrete and steel as our ideal.
Truth be told there is a large under current of ingrained racism, bigotry and hate that most people are smart enough to hide from their neighbors. These people will lie in polls, claiming to be for Biden, when they know they will vote for Trump. They understand what they are doing, but they cannot change. The idea that they might not be as rich, or smart, or kind, or well educated as people with different skin colors, or religions infuriates them. These are Nazis at heart and they live among us.
No matter how embarrassing it is to hear people talking about the President of the United States of America like he is a sensitive toddler who cannot deal with the truth of his loss, we must move on and it is more difficult knowing that there are at least seventy million Americans willing to live with all this just to soothe their debilitated egos.
Biden and Harris have their work cut out for them.
It's like taking over a special education class mid term when the original teacher allowed the bullies to run the class for four years. There are generations of ingrained beliefs that, once allowed to surface, are difficult to alter.
How do you teach kindness to people who believe it is only a mask to make their job easier? How do you teach tolerance and empathy to people who are totally blind to anything but surface decoration? How do you teach integrity to people who believe cheating is part of winning?
Entitlement is a disease that has been allowed to replace everything good in our country for way too long. Truly successful people are not measured in dollars and cents, but in honesty, empathy, and a determination to leave the world better than they found it.
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