American Tragedy

Nine days.

We rid the stain of a truly odious, terrible, evil person. But not the stench. Nor the damage done, both domestically and throughout the rest of the world.

The carnage, which started on that bleak Friday four years ago, will take years to access and repair. The respectability and leadership that was granted to us in 1945, 76 years ago, has been diminished to a point where four years of a Biden/Harris administration can attempt to try to bring back, one can hope. But like so many things, hope doesn’t always mesh with reality.

Nine days.

Until we get a man who won’t have us waking up to a radioactive tweet or a sycophant’s inane defense of something the odious dotard did or said between his middle-of-the-night tinkle.

The respectability and leadership that was granted to us in 1945, 76 years ago, has been diminished to a point where four years of a Biden/Harris administration can attempt to try to bring back, one can hope. But like so many things, hope doesn’t always mesh with reality.

And yet.

We still have people wallowing in their Pyric triumph of last Wednesday, ones who climbed the scaffolding for the inauguration of President-elect Biden and Vice-President Harris and never got caught or arrested. Yet, the FBI has said there are 25…