August 29, 2021
I started this (Exit78) blog post back in the middle of the Autumn of 2018, just before the midterm election. That seems like such a long, different time ago. Much of the issues that divide us, that obsess us, that stress us so, didn’t exist back then. There was no pandemic. There was no Big Lie. The president hadn’t been impeached once, let alone twice. Biden was an ex-politician. Vaccinations and masks were medical tools, not political triggers. In the 115th Congress, Republicans held both houses of Congress.
It seems like a long, different time ago…. but…
(The blog post was still in draft until today.)
October 26, 2018
Sometimes it’s hard not to engage.
Both—no, make that ALL—sides of every issue seem to have some people overly emotional these days.
Sometimes, I take time to write what seems to me to be a reasoned response for some of what I read on blogs and/or social media.
More often than not, I delete my response.
Engaging in the discourse, no matter how reasoned, is not going to make any difference, is not going to change any minds. In the final days leading into the first midterm election of the next president, all of this will be history.
“This too shall pass.1”
Normally, that would be the case. Things usually return to some semblance of normal. However, whatever we had in 2018 is gone and normal has yet to be found.
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- “Adage reflecting on the temporary nature, or ephemerality, of the human condition. The general sentiment is often expressed in wisdom literature throughout history and across cultures, although the specific phrase seems to have originated in the writings of the medieval Persian Sufi poets.” (Wikipedia)
