The unrosyness of the Short and Long runs, and the worthlessness of apologies
Somebody expressed anxiety that the wingnuts are going off the deep end and might carry out a hit or do whatever harm on Hillary. That’s the Short Run prospect. The LONG Run prospect is bleak anyway: First, I’m not counting on the Win until Election Night with a Victory Speech from her (no assurance DRUMPF will ever concede!). Then the misery ensues: Four years of “INVESTIGATIONS” and TOTAL GRIDLOCK, for sure on legislation but maybe not even any of her judge nominees getting past a vote, and then more than likely IMPEACHMENT. Her only insurance is KAINE, do they want HIM INSTEAD?! So the Short and the Long of it are just not rosy.
Apologies. The straw that DRUMPF’s last supporters are grasping at is that he HAS APOLOGIZED for whatever. One of life’s lessons is that APOLOGIES ARE WORTHLESS. Malefactors and perpetrators use APOLOGIES as PERMISSION to go back and RE-DO their horrors. In Family Violence, the pattern is for there to be a build-up in intensity from emotional and verbal abuse upward to physical abuse, then the act of abuse itself, then the perpetrator being overcome with apparent shame and guilt, then the perp apologizes and begs for forgiveness, and the victim grants the forgiveness/"accepts-apology”. Then back to Square 1 for the build-up phase again, then almost inevitably the repetition of the whole cycle. As Vice President John Nance GARNER said, "The Vice Presidency ain't worth a bucket of warm piss," and neither are apologies.
