Somewhere Before Depression

I’ve been silent. I’ve been recovering from all the stress the elections season has brought on.

I going through the stages of grief: denial-anger-bargaining-depression-acceptance.

I am somewhere between bargaining and depression as I think on tomorrow. I wonder what kind of country my children will inherit. The debt, state of justice, safety, prosperity, morality, opportunity, all sear my conscience.

What will tomorrow be like? How can I protect and preserve their future freedoms? 

I know it’s an historic election and all, but that doesn’t change the fact that I feel like we are destroying the very principles that much wiser and intuitive people than I founded this nation on:

“Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they
do not understand.” –Thomas Jefferson: Opinion on Apportionment Bill,
1792. ME 3:211

A democracy can only be strong and thrive if it has an educated electorate. That’s doesn’t mean I think everyone who voted a certain way is stupid. I just think they may not fully understand what they voted for.

The ability to choose means you should choose to preserve personal liberty and individual freedom above all else. It is based on principle and not emotion. Policies of large government always, I mean ALWAYS, take those rights away from its citizens. But often this gets clouded when we get caught up in the emotion of the moment.

But I know all is not lost. There is a new day ahead. I just like to enter it with a sober view. That’s just me.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!