Looking Forward With Hope

WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE have much to which to look forward. The investigation results, the midterm elections, and all that. It turns out that, according to recent polls, if Bernie Sanders were to run against Trump in 2020, he would win, even at age seventy eight. Age discrimination seems to be dead, and considering that every day approximately ten thousand Americans turn sixty five, that isn't a bad idea. The retirement age will continue to be pushed upward, and retirement itself, a post World War Two invention, might well fade into history, as people are forced to depend upon themselves and their immediate labor, with the apparent decline of the social security system and our seeming unwillingness to do the simple math required to repair it. A highly recommended endeavor is the googling of the "republican Party platform of 1956." Its nearly to the left of Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders would be compatible with the policies of the Eisenhower administration. We have moved much to the right since the nineteen seventies, since grandfatherly Ronald W. Reagan made us forget the stagnation of the Carter administration.We we are in the era of the ultra right strongman, reincarnation of the nineteen twenties, of Mussolini and Hitler. We cleaned up the devastation back then with a liberal resurgence; the coming midterm, polls indicate, might be a cleansing with millennials, half of whom are not religious and many of whom espouse socialism, entering the ranks of the leaders. When times are tough, people turn to Caesar, and away from the republic. When they are good, we expand our hearts and minds and return to progressive intentions. We have much to which to look forward.