Cheer up.....

....things could be worse.

So, I cheered up and, sure enuff, things got worse....
Can’t get away from this election....it’s been almost two years ‘n counting ‘n I gotta say, I’m tired of it ‘n Millyrose keeps changing the channels to cooking shows...
Y’know, I use’ta be a Democrat....I never really considered being anything but a Democrat even tho’ my mother was a Republican. Greenup County, Kentucky was and is a Democrat county and my mother was, to put it mildly, a bit of a contrarian. We all tho’t it was a mild aberration, ‘n didn’t pay much attention to it. Turns out it may have been something over which she had no control, sort’a bred in the bone, y’might say.
I never knew my mother’s father, the Bradshaw....he died in a mining accident when she was a baby, and I never really knew any of his family. Anyway, based on my knowledge of her family ‘n the little bit I know of my grandmothers family, I’d guess it was something in the Bradshaw DNA.
And that’s as good a place to lay the blame as any, I suppose.
As a natural born Democrat then, the first national election I got to vote in was in 1960 ‘n I voted for John Kennedy. I liked Kennedy ‘n I bought into the whole Camelot thing ‘n I remember a tee shirt with a picture f Richard Nixon ‘n the caption, “Would you buy a used car from this man?” Turned out that Nixon was much more qualified t’be president than Kennedy but, that of course, is water over the bridge. In later years, I realized that I voted more for the image than the man himself. In my own defense, I was young and the young are natural rebels. In ‘The Wild One’...Marlon Brando was asked what he was rebelling against and he replied, “What do you got?”
Young people always rebell against the status quo. That’s what they’re s’pozed t’do...’n old people always try ‘n maintain the status quo because that’s what they’re comfortable with...Their mantra is, ”Change it all you want after I’m gone because I won’t give a damn then.”
That’s because it’s their status quo and young people always want their own status quo because everyone wants instant gratification. Which is pretty much what got us into this mess in the first place...well that, 'n the Democrats that think the right to want something is the same thing as the right to have something....Hey! Go figure.....
I’m a Republican now but my feelings really haven’t changed....I think my friends still feel the way they did, tho’ everyone hasn’t changed their party status. Change is difficult when you get to the point that buying green bananas is a risky financial move.
The Democrat party has always had a policy of building their base by appealing to the young and discontented, to the recent immigrant (legal or otherwise) who come to America not only seeking the holy grail but expecting to find it for under a buck at Micky D’s.....
Lover’s promises are written in the sand t’be washed away with the next wave but a politicians words are spoken into the wind. And the young and disaffected and the less than sophisticated immigrant travelling arm in arm along the yellow-brick road in search of the Great and Magnificent Oz are destined to discover that hidden behind the phony tinsel ‘n glitter of Hollywood is the real tinsel ‘n glitter.
Like turning twentyone and finding out that you’re expected to pay your own way...Now, that’s a bummer....