I just took the dog for a walk. One thing I like about nature is it's neutrality. No matter what politics goes on between the people nature just goes on. (Yes there are environmental issues but that's beside the point) Overall, the morning after elections everything looks the same.
I have lived through six presidencies both R and D (I was too young to remember Carter) and who knows how many balance of power combinations. I mean there are wars and economic ups and downs so I'm not implying there are not differences in candidates or that the differences are not important, but from a world and historical perspective they are not as major as political pundits want us to think. The US has a decent system of checks and balances and while the pendulum can swing back and forth things seem to even out in the long run. Sure I'd like my preferred candidate to win(sometimes they do sometimes they don't), but I try not to either lose sleep or become smug whatever the result. Whoever gets in power the other party will predict the apocalypse, totalitarianism, conspiracy theories, and use them as scapegoats. I think every American president was speculated as being the Antichrist or part of some "New World Order" but we all survive. Also people on their side like to think that we will wake up and they will solve every problem, end our problems from war and poverty to acne to constipation yet a president is not an omnipotent monarch and even monarchs aren't omnipotent. Barring the end of the world which no one can stop, life will go on. Now if Stalin or Hitler were running and had a good chance then we can be nervous but still... Ask many Pennsylvanians if their life was better under Casey or Ridge and they'd be like (When were they governor?) My point is that there are many things that affect our daily lives besides which politicians are in power.
I have lived through six presidencies both R and D (I was too young to remember Carter) and who knows how many balance of power combinations. I mean there are wars and economic ups and downs so I'm not implying there are not differences in candidates or that the differences are not important, but from a world and historical perspective they are not as major as political pundits want us to think. The US has a decent system of checks and balances and while the pendulum can swing back and forth things seem to even out in the long run. Sure I'd like my preferred candidate to win(sometimes they do sometimes they don't), but I try not to either lose sleep or become smug whatever the result. Whoever gets in power the other party will predict the apocalypse, totalitarianism, conspiracy theories, and use them as scapegoats. I think every American president was speculated as being the Antichrist or part of some "New World Order" but we all survive. Also people on their side like to think that we will wake up and they will solve every problem, end our problems from war and poverty to acne to constipation yet a president is not an omnipotent monarch and even monarchs aren't omnipotent. Barring the end of the world which no one can stop, life will go on. Now if Stalin or Hitler were running and had a good chance then we can be nervous but still... Ask many Pennsylvanians if their life was better under Casey or Ridge and they'd be like (When were they governor?) My point is that there are many things that affect our daily lives besides which politicians are in power.
