The Resistance.

 I spent a lot of yesterday in my car listening to an excellent local liberal radio station.  I devote my car time to listening to liberal interpretations of world events and trends.  Although I do not agree with much of it, I find it informative regarding liberal thinking about a wide variety of issues.  Yesterday’s commentary stressed the importance of what each of the commentators referred to as “the resistance.”  There was very little substantive content to any of the commentary, but the central message was that all liberal Americans .would, of course, resist the efforts of the president elect.  Each of the various commentators had a slightly different take on the exact nature of the resistance, but several speakers mentioned the possibility that California should seriously consider succeeding from the union.

I am not deluded as to the real significance of the jabber that is currently dominating liberal conversations, but I am seriously depressed by it, in that it reflects the degree of ignorance that plagues the thinking of too many of us.  I should be quick to note that ultra right conservatives that believe that Trump’s election is the solution to all of our problems are indulging in an equally ignorant appraisal of our current situation.  I am hopeful that Trump will improve our economy and immediate security situation, but I have little hope that he will be able to improve our societal cohesion.  Neither Trump nor Biden are the fundamental problem plaguing America.  The fundamentals are rooted in you and me.  Biden and Trump are merely the pawns that we select to carry our flag into the societal mayhem that is destroying our nation.

You and I want a good life, as we envision it, and each of us have different definitions of what that might entail.  We tend to associate with others that share our most important values.  This leads directly to political associations that tend to dominate the formation of national policy - both domestic and foreign.  All of this is as it has long been in this country and we have survived two world wars, but, as I have said many times before, there is an important change that has taken place.  We have invented nuclear weapons.  Nuclear explosions do not just obliterate people and things.  They also adversely change the chemistry of the air that we breath and the ground that we grow our food in.  I argue that we have an interest in not engaging in a nuclear war.  In order to avoid that stupidity we, you and I, have to start talking to each other rather than past each other about all manner of things.  Were we to do that, the leaders that we would select would find far more support and far less resistance.

It might well be that there are just plain too many of us on this finite rock spinning in space, but I see no advantage in reducing our numbers through the use of nuclear weapons.  I argue that we should get our heads together and see if we can not come up with a more intelligent solution to our various problems - to include the proper wording on the bathroom door and the proper price of whatever.