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We’ve put our Christmas gifts away, finished our dinner, we’re relaxing around the house.<\/p>\n

And, by golly, I’m already looking ahead to the next year. It commences the third decade of the 21st century.<\/p>\n

Wow! That’s about all I’ve got to say about that specific item.<\/p>\n

However, the year coming promises to be one for the books. A U.S. president will stand trial for high crimes and misdemeanors, only the third one in the nation’s history. I shudder to think how the trial will turn out, so I won’t mention it specifically.<\/p>\n

Then we’ll have a presidential election. Candidates and assorted politicians always tell us that the next election is “the most important in history.” This one actually might be the most crucial.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump’s bid for re-election is fraught with plenty of peril. I don’t want him re-elected; but you knew that already. Another four years of this individual in the White House is bound to produce a volume of drama and chaos that will make the past four years seem like a game of patty-cake. It won’t be fun.<\/p>\n

I just want a “normal” politician to take office. I don’t know who that would be, or should<\/em> be among those seeking to replace Trump.<\/p>\n

In a curious sort of way I am looking forward to the campaign. I just hope my sense of anticipation isn’t overtaken by a sense of dread that turns to nausea.<\/p>\n

Trump will keep telling the lies about presiding over the greatest economy in human history, how he took over a military that was “decimated” by his immediate predecessor, how he is “making America great again” by stiffing and scolding our international allies.<\/p>\n

Why are they lies? Because the economy isn’t doing as well as it did right after World War II; because our military always has been the most powerful such apparatus in world history; and his quest for American greatness has turned us into an international laughingstock.<\/p>\n

We need to take stock of what we have gotten from this individual so far and we must decide whether we want more of the same. I do not want an acceleration of what we have experienced.<\/p>\n

The new year of 2020 will give us a chance to perform a serious course correction.<\/p>\n\n

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