{"id":10029,"date":"2020-11-04T12:35:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=10029"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T17:50:23","slug":"election-day-has-come-and-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2020\/11\/04\/election-day-has-come-and-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day has come and gone…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, not actually gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s devolved into what appears to be blatant cheating along with the usual allegations of voter fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Due to the mail in voting, it\u2019s going to be weeks until we have a winner declared and even then, the legal wrangling will likely last for months if not years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So ultimately, even if the Democrats lose… they\u2019ve still won because they\u2019ve managed to cast a pall of illegitimacy over the President. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise though, if the Democrats win, they\u2019ve cast the same pall over their candidate. This is the lesson of mutually assured destruction.  Apparently, the Democrats didn\u2019t learn the lesson during the cold war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Democrats and their ultra progressive allies obviously never learned the lesson and quite frankly are behaving more like Communists, Bolsheviks, or flat out NAZIs than I\u2019ve ever witnessed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frankly, I\u2019m so disgusted I can\u2019t think straight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I fear for my county, and I fear for our future. Not because of one President, but because of the cultural shift that\u2019s occurring and this (In my opinion<\/em>) wrong headed thinking of win at any cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historically the win at any cost philosophy has proven itself to extract a very high price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even now, people are questioning law, order, government, and anything official. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Folks are also demonstrating a surprising willingness to tear down and destroy anyone or anything that they disagree with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This path is littered with war, poverty, crime, and genocide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re killing people over religion, color, or politics, people still die and xenophobia in various forms kills more than people. xenophobia kills progress and enlightenment, and gaining of knowledge. Ask Galileo<\/strong> about that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

xenophobia: [noun] fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By that definition, anything strange or foreign could loosely be politics, religion, belief,  or custom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this where we\u2019re headed? Are we careening down a path to wanton destruction on both sides?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find myself asking if I want to deal with this. I\u2019m old, and tired, all I wanted was to quietly retire, go fishing, or hang out with folks my age, in peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I don\u2019t want to deal with this – insanity, what are the alternatives? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, not actually gone.  It\u2019s devolved into what appears to be blatant cheating along with the usual allegations of voter fraud. Due to the mail in voting, it\u2019s going to be weeks until we have a winner declared and even then, the legal wrangling will likely last for months if not years. So ultimately, even … <\/p>\n

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