This is not specifically about the books of SONG - except that it really is ... because all of the generations, all of the centuries, all of the battles represented in the series They Are My Song are leading in the same direction: TODAY. And TOMORROW. So today's events really do have a heck of a lot to do with SONG after all I reckon.
I’m still seeing references to ‘why
people voted for Trump’ couched in terms of the increasingly evident botches of
the other side.
You know what?
None of that stuff really had all
that much to do with my vote, although it’s nice to see it all finally coming
into the light.
But no.
I would bet money if I had any
that I’m not the only American who actually voted FOR somebody.
I said at the time and I’ll say
it again now: I waited, and Waited, and WAITED for the democrats to come up
with something, ANYTHING, that focused on issues that were important to me, on
some kind of plan to address and alter the direction their political party had
been taking our nation toward. It never happened. I’m still waiting.
In the meantime, hope from that
front gone, this Independent Voter had also been paying attention to what was
coming out of the republican front. And it made sense to me. The message Donald
Trump was presenting made sense, especially as it was filling the vacuum the
democrats were creating by not having ANY message. “It’s my turn” is not a
message. “The other guy is a jerk” is not a message. “This is YOUR nation; it
belongs to You, to We the People” is a message. Hearing ‘us’ and ‘we’ and ‘our’
and ‘choice’ and ‘security’ and ‘God Bless America’ and ‘Constitution’ and ‘Proud
to be an American’ and ‘a return to Rule of Law’ and ‘YOU matter’ … all
messages. Proven financial capability, also a message. The presentation of
concrete, viable plans of action – a message. Lots and lots of messages, and
they make sense.
So please don’t try to tell me or
any of us that we voted ‘against’ Hillary.
Hillary who?
I voted FOR Donald Trump. Me, an
Independent who hasn’t seen a presidential candidate I actually wanted to vote
into office in decades.
By all means, continue to expose
and prosecute what has needed to be exposed and prosecuted for a long time. Maybe
it will make those folk think twice before they try it again.
But please note that those are
not the things that are making me smile and wanting to say “I told you so”.
Frankly, it was pretty much a given, as soon as the guy who believes in Rule of
Law got into office, that those things were going to be tended to.
No, it’s not those things that
either swayed my vote or now make me smile.
It was the promise of hope borne
in the message; and it is the promise, the message, the hope fulfilled – the
word given and kept.
Against all the odds, fighting an
uphill battle, swimming against the current … all of those clichés and a bunch
more all fit. Even so, what mattered last year at this time and what matters
now is that feeling of Hope, coming on ever stronger. Through the stench of the
swamp-draining that’s going on, Hope rises like a breath of fresh air.
…
Me being me, and about half of my
life spent researching and writing about times much more ancient than these,
yes I’m going to draw a bit of a comparison here. The situation kind of reminds
me of when the legions of Rome finally gave up on ever conquering Scotland. It was
supposed to have been a rout, right? Just go into that little country, take it,
and be done with it. The odds were all in favor of Rome. All they had to do was
just do it. But the Scots weren’t having it. And … guess what.
When it comes to that, another
example of Rome underestimating what they were up against comes when the
(allegedly impossible and therefore never really happened) Barbarian Conspiracy
succeeded in taking down the Western Empire. Those Barbarians, in current
terms, might be referred to as Deplorables.
Just sayin’ … if the comparison
fits, use it.
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