Reality check 2024

 As one advances further up the birthday count one greets another new year with multiple feelings and expectations.

Mortality rests slightly off center when you reach your 70's and then as you approach your 80's IT starts making ITS presence a tad more pronounced.  Those tiny aches and pains that rotate from one joint to the next depending on how you slept or how you popped out of bed.

Generally while moving about during the day those tiny little reminders take a break and if you are doing something that you enjoy (like playing golf) then they actually almost disappear.

Being aware of the political and social situations taking place here and in other parts of the world create a different type of pain awareness.

When you know there is nothing you can personally do to alter anything going on between countries and leaders of those countries...as there is nothing you can do to alter the divisions that exist within our own government...then the pain takes on a life of its own.

At home we have trusted that elections decide outcomes.  In many other countries elections don't really determine who has the power.  

In 2024 elections have suddenly become a weird event.

With the addition of AI we are about to witness a Presidential election that will baffle the minds and hearts of  responsible voters.  Keep in mind that 74 million people voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 election so responsible voting isn't always the mandate.

You do realize that he still hasn't conceded that election and that his supporters still think the election was stolen from him.

I actually talk to a few people on a regular basis that believe he wasn't responsible for the attack on the Capital on January 6 2021.  They also believe those weren't MAGA people inside the building but Antifa people dressed in MAGA clothing and gear.

I've watched the morning talks with John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump TWICE and there is no doubt what they were trying to do.

AND YET HIS SUPPORTERS DON'T THINK HE WANTED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT.  THEY SIMPLY THINK HE WAS EXHIBITING HIS RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH.

And after 723 indictments and 454 incarceration's his supporters still think he did nothing wrong...AND THAT THE OBVIOUS INSURRECTION WAS EXAGGERATED.

And we are entering an election season where certain states are trying to keep him off the primary ballots but remember the Supreme Court is 6-3 on his team so those attempts will most likely fail.

I know I should be concerned by actions talking place in the Middle East and The Ukraine but our situation at home probably has bigger ramifications for the future of peace and prosperity on a global scale because after all is said and done..........

We are the at the top of the food chain and there's a reason all those people are trying to cross our borders.

Except for a beautiful chalet on the side of a village in Switzerland where else would you want to live?

Happy New Year