GOOD BY 2020 – GOOD RIDDANCE

 

 

On The first day of 2021 we can all look back and agree that last year was a sucky year.  However, being old I have a more balanced perspective.   This is not my first rodeo.

 

I was a child during the Second World War and remember the fear and helplessness that people felt.  Food shortages, ration cards and Gold Stars in many people’s windows.

 

I was a young adult during integration that sparked racial violence throughout the south.

 

I was assigned to a Naval patrol bomber squadron that blockaded Cuba when Russia attempted to establish a nuclear base off our southern coast.  We did not know from day to day if we would spark a nuclear war. 

 

The country was divided during the Vietnam war.   When I returned, we were flown back to the states on a chartered Qantas Airline.  Many abord were carrying injuries, both physical and mental, that would plague them for the rest of their lives. We all applauded and yelled when we touch down in San Francisco; but were met by protesters that booed and shouted insults.

 

The U.S. was attacked on September 11.  In some ways it brought us together.

 

Now a narcissistic conman has divided the country and brought into the open the most extreme elements of our society.    Our very democracy is threatened; while at the same time we are experiencing a once in a century global pandemic, that is by all accounts out of control.  

 

At the beginning of 2020 many were puckered up to kiss the mouth of a prosperous economy but ended up laying a big one on the ass of Donald Trump.   The rich still prospered during 20, but the rest of us have suffered.

 We should look at 2020 as the year brought to us by the Republican Party.  If we don’t recover it will be our own fault.

 

Starting with the Tea Party movement, we have allowed the inmates to take over the asylum.   Now here we are.

 

the Ol’Buzzard