I guess I will never understand it – how people could be so devoted to Donald Trump that they would want to start another Civil War over him. I might be able to stretch and understand a revolutionary mindset, but hitching your wagon to THIS guy? For me, it doesn’t compute.
It seems we are all desperately trying to find something to blame for all the extremity dividing us these days. Social media? Video games? Gun manufacturers? Cults? Take your pick.
It’s my belief that all human beings need a little romantic stimulation. One popular comedian says that if only young men got a little (fill in the blank), school shootings, militias, even wars, would be things of the past. But it’s way beyond that narrow definition. We just seem to need to romanticize something, to have our souls stirred. That’s why apocalyptic movies attract such large audiences. It’s always about the final glorious battle between light and darkness. The only problem is, we can’t agree on who controls which.
We need this stimulation mainly for escape. Real life is tough. Day-to-day existence is full of challenges and sometimes, it’s boring. Many people only think of how things could be, or used to be. A lot of them weren’t even there back in the so called good old days they yearn for.
The trouble with romanticizing is, it’s a giant cover-up much of the time. A beautiful garden can take our breath away, but we don’t know how many gardeners it took working in dirt to get rid of the pests that would destroy those lovely plants.
Some people glorify the idea of a Civil War, like our last great internal military struggle. But all we have to do is look at a few Matthew Brady photos of the rows of corpses on historic battlefields to see what it cost.
Just for the record, I don’t believe Senator Lindsey Graham was actually calling for “riots in the street,” he was just offering an opinion of what would happen if Mr. Trump were prosecuted for mishandling classified documents, but his comment certainly wasn’t helpful either. As for Civil War, I hope the federal government is at least silently preparing for it, unlikely though it may seem now. And for those who think they will enjoy some blaze of patriotic glory after starting one, I would recommend, as I have said before, that they check their history books – those that haven’t been banned yet – and consider how the last Civil War came out.
4 comments:
I loved this. And just for the record it could only have been written because of the astute observations of a true romantic—you!
Btw I wrote the above if you hadn’t guessed. Tracey Schaaf
I almost guessed...it would have atleast been in the ballpark, lol.
Just to reply properly here, I almost guessed, and I think I would have ateast been in the ballpark!
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