The M.O.B.

I watched the news in horror during the Capitol rioters, but I was horrified when all Republicans were painted with one brush.

I do not know about you but following the uptick in the craziness and division caused by the storming of the Capital building and subsequent actions have left me with a sense of defeat and helplessness. I found myself feeling inept, sad, scared, and embarrassed by the actions of some of my fellow Americans and the Government. Where are we headed in the coming days and years?

I heard a term this morning on Fox News, during an interview with Steve Forbes, and I had no idea what it meant. The word was “fabulist”, defined as “a person who composes or relates fables or a liar, especially a person who invents elaborate, dishonest stories.” In my family that would be my Uncle Bobby on my dad’s side, but we called him a storyteller, defined as “a person who tells stories.”

Have you ever looked at the El Paso County COVID-19 dashboard? Fifteen pages of confusion and lack of coherent information.

What motivates and inspires you in these difficult times? Hopefully these words enlighten your soul and outlook.

Mail-in voting has been in the news since November 4, 2020. There have been enough problems with this way of voting for a long time. The United States is supposedly the freest nations on the planet, but we might be the laziest one too. I mean really folks, think about this. Do we need mail-in voting? We can go shopping, run errands, and get our nails done, but we are too afraid to stand in line for a voting booth?