OPINION:
A minority of midterm voters prepared for disappointing outcomes. Even for them, Tuesday’s results were worse than expected.
The majority has spoken and, as always, they and the rest of the country will accept the consequences. In one sense, I am glad for the enthusiastic start of what the country has been toying with for a few decades.
At my age, I have the luxury of a sideline view of what is to follow. I am determined to enjoy what is left of my life before the country of my birth becomes, as it surely now must, overtly uncomfortable for me under the dual pressures of familiar socialism and unfamiliar Islamization.
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While today there are accomplished Muslims glad to assimilate into an adopted national culture, Islam broadly eschews progress and clings to a 7th century mystique of ignorance that allows adherents to ignore the wellbeing of others before they act. That gives them a great advantage over the moral foundation of Western civilization.
I cannot help but reflect on what will change and who we once were: the glory of our philosophical moral beginning, constitutionally guaranteed freedom of choice to expand and build personally and together, the sorrows and joys of our collective tumults and successes.
We weathered wars to eradicate the pain and shame of slavery and the plague of European and Asian fascism.
I am disappointed but not angry about the midterm choices made. We are Americans and while we are a melange of origins and attitudes, when confronted by a looming adversity, we have always acted together with a single will to overcome. And we have always overcome.
That history should instill in me the promise of endurance, but this time the prospects of transformation drain me of hope.
However, it is profoundly true that history has a way of repeating itself. Buckle up, America; you may yet enjoy this ride.
Richmond, Virginia
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