Is it the end?

The end of life as we know it. The most important election in the history of the world went badly. I can’t believe they won the election. The American people are such idiots. The economy will be in tatters. The possibility of half of the American population being forced into reeducation camps is upon us. Over a billion dollars was spent on this outcome? The new Vice-President is a doofus. We have to re-examine whether our political system even works anymore. I don’t see America surviving four years of this. I’m going to move to Belize. They aren’t my President. We’ll throw every obstacle we can at their administration. 

These comments and thousands more like them will be uttered next week. Somebody is going to win, somebody is going to lose. Yes, both sides have uttered the reeducation camps mandate for the other side. Maybe if we started teaching civics again, we could avoid the camps?

Was this the most important election ever? The last election— no, the election before that; or was it the one before that?—was the most important ever. I doubt it is the last election, but eventually there will be one from which America cannot recover. We are about as forward thinking as the Romans were. Crushing debt, internal strife, or an enemy we can’t imagine will do us in, eventually. But this election? Somehow, I doubt that it is the end.

America has lessons to be learned, but greater things lay before us. Can we have a GDP of 5% again? Can we have statistical unemployment again? Can we colonize the moon? Mars? Can we eliminate hunger? Can we conquer cancer? Can we eliminate illiteracy? Can we solve the problem of drought? Can every child be loved? Can we solve America’s addiction problem? Can we educate the masses? Can we eliminate hate? 

I submit we are Americans. We can do anything we set our minds to doing. But first, I’m mindful that this election season indicates there is no love lost between the two sides, yet I ask: can we love one another? That solves most of our problems.