Donald Trump\u2019s All Star Barnstorming Travelling Medicine Show is approaching its one-month milestone.\u00a0 And I think it\u2019s fair to say its hallmark is that he keeps the hand grenades flying and that keeps his opponents off balance.\u00a0 And kudos to him and his all stars for all their good work.\u00a0 Bravo.<\/p>\n
What that made me think of was how for the last fifty years our leaders have been keeping us off balance with one crisis after another.\u00a0 There\u2019s always another war or a banking crisis or stagflation, or COVID or Climate Change or civil rights or women\u2019s rights or gay rights or you name it.\u00a0 For all of my adult life we have had to forget about normalcy and prosperity and instead we had to give up our rights or our way of life or mortgage our future or our children\u2019s future or lately our grandchildren\u2019s future to save the world or destroy our enemies or cure some \u201coriginal sin.\u201d\u00a0 It occurs to me that this is not an accident.\u00a0 This is the means of controlling us and keeping us from prospering.<\/p>\n
If Donald Trump and his successors want to save this country their assignment should be to restore this country to normalcy.\u00a0 They need to allow us to get our feet back underneath us again and get back a sense of balance.\u00a0 End all of the emergencies.\u00a0 Give us some peace and quiet and allow us to live like Americans again instead of like serfs.<\/p>\n
Fans of the \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d know that the Shire is the most boring place imaginable.\u00a0 All of the adventure and excitement happens in places like Rohan and Gondor that are full of battles against the agent of evil; orcs, trolls, evil men and the like.\u00a0 But it\u2019s also true that the greatest sense of loss for the hobbits is when they return home to the Shire only to find that these enemies have spoiled the boring peace and quiet of the Shire and replaced it with fear and danger.\u00a0 Because what you discover is that safe, boring, prosperous, well-ordered communities are the only place where healthy people can exist.\u00a0 Because they\u2019re the only place where you can raise a family and earn a living and leave something behind for next generation.<\/p>\n
And the only way to make that happen is to end the chaos.\u00a0 End the protests and the grievances.\u00a0 End the rancor.\u00a0 People in the 1960s were always making fun of the 1950s.\u00a0 They said it was boring and repressed compared to the sexual revolution and the revolution in the streets that came a decade after.\u00a0 They mocked the bland image of Dwight Eisenhower as the father of the country overseeing a boring but prosperous nation chasing after and realizing the American Dream.<\/p>\n
Well, that sounds just about like heaven to me right now.\u00a0 Donald Trump and anyone who wants to follow him should be selling us on the idea that Washington should be moving heaven and earth to stop the chaos and give Americans a chance to be boring and happy.\u00a0 They should arrange for the people in this country to have a generation when the priority is to earn a living, raise a family and maybe watch a baseball game on a Saturday afternoon without thinking about war, crime, or civil unrest.\u00a0 The pursuit of happiness.<\/p>\n
That should be the plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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