Rather than clutter up my Facebook feed or even my Twitter feeds and subject my friends to more political clutter, I figure I can post to my blog. And most comments warrant more than 140 characters anyway.
Let’s set my context, just to start.
- I’m registered Republican. Sorry, West Coast people, in case you didn’t know, please don’t hate me.
- I proclaim my political views to be “extreme moderate.” A reflection of my sense of humor, however when I’m pissing off Republicans and Democrats with equal fervor, I know that I’m in the right place.
- Though I shouldn’t need to qualify my opinions by the following, recent public behavior of politicians prompt me to also mention that my opinions are strongly influenced by (substantiated and substantiatable) facts.
This has been a tumultuous period in this country’s history. Every “pundant” has been fully and completely wrong in their polls, assessments, and forecasts. Rather than mundane politics-as-usual, the shocking success of Trump through his campaign to the top seat highlights the great divide that exists in this country.
This divide, I don’t understand very well. But we have to look beyond the chaos introduced by the new administration to understand what the impact is to Americans and our country.