Outlook Not So Good

 I will admit up front that, as with many, I had high hopes for my country when Biden was elected as president, and then even more so after the January 6th Trump-led insurrection at the capital. It is appearing, however, that my hopes were misplaced. Today, senate minority leader Mitch McConnell stated that his goal, 100 percent, is to oppose anything and everything proposed by the new president, promising a dysfunctional government into the foreseeable future. This certainly cannot be what the founders intended--that is, a devotion to getting nothing done for the American people. What we are seeing instead, as I now believe, or at least greatly fear, is a short road to dissolution and civil war. Rather than shaking themselves awake and rededicating themselves to the nation after the insurrection, the Republicans have fully invested in denial, fully invested in 'the big lie' that the election was somehow unfair and therefore invalid, despite the fact that there is no evidence whatsoever of election fraud or irregularities. They are a party wholly devoted to division, conflict, and inaction as far as the common people are concerned. It is all rather perfectly discouraging. One can only look forward now to the congressional election of 2022 and hope that the House and the Senate will end up packed with a wealth of democrats, for otherwise the country will be paralyzed at best, or collapse altogether. At a time when so many things so desperately need to change, we find our government enmeshed in endless dithering and bickering, enmeshed in endless, crippling power games, worthless to ourselves and worthless to the world at large.