The beginning of the end

The title suggests the bad news using this old time expression.

One can also express hope and expect that after the end of our recent decades of American voting and political behavior, a new beginning will blossom. Of course most would ask, what does that mean for me? The quick answer is that we will live like normal human beings, and accommodate to whatever our circumstances are. Some will do better than others…what’s new?

Now the “end” can mean many things, mostly a change in the status quo. One guess is that many governments will default on their obligations from our past. Default pretty much means can’t pay its bills, and all other options have been exhausted. Just imagine trying to buy groceries with an IOU from some government. Or just imagine working for a company that is no longer being paid by some government, and still expecting to go to work and get a paycheck. Or just imagine being home invaded by a criminal, and there is no local police protection to respond to help ourselves. Or how about my child getting typhoid from the local untreated water, and expecting they might die? Or last, how about my electricity and phone doesn’t work?

Some of us are going to get “screwed over” after a lifetime of other behavior and faith.

Now the “future” can also mean many things, and again, mostly be a change in the status quo.

For example, voters in the USA will probably elect future politicians that vote for and provide for laws and practices that promote the common good…not the present time talk but the real common good. The obvious example is that if there is not enough money to do everything we desire, then we should do the basics first. Now that is a future.

And of course we in the USA don’t exist in a vacuum. The rest of the human world will influence us, too. And much of the friction in the USA is also going on elsewhere, just differently. The wildcard is the present dictators in the regional powers that may drag us down with them. After all this happened in WWII with the regional powers of Japan and Germany dragging us down. And now it may happen in China (a civil war) or Iran or North Korea (a local or regional war). One obvious American question one has heard before still is valid: “can we all just get along?” Or another question still arises, why should my family member die for their problem?

Anyway, as bad as things may get financially and politically that affects our USA future, and after much USA human suffering that may be coming (it will vary locally of course), I forecast we will emerge a human normal reasonable people and nation (locally varied of course, again). The interim period will involve much friction, but also in the end we in the new world USA are not too shabby a people.

And we will continue to vote our way to our future. And this will still attract so much of the rest of the future human world. We have a special idea and principle here that does so well for humans. And so many of them know the alternatives are not as good as the future USA.

So the “beginning of the end” can also be the “beginning of the future”. Now that is a voter decision in the USA, I think. Should be interesting. At least where I live I think so.