The Instigator of our Next Civil War

​As is evident, I am obsessed with this election, fretting constantly to where we got to a place in this country where if a certain candidate does not win a small but vocal group of meatheads threatened the rest of us with the probability of a new Civil War. Not exactly a fodder for relaxing and restful sleep. I think often of how we got this way and I keep coming back to the turning point of this whole mess. No, not Ronald Reagan. Although Ronnie did release the throngs of mentally challenged individuals back into our streets, we need to go back a bit further. I speaking of a man named Howard Jarvis, the “we are being taxed to death” ass-wipe. His whiskey-soaked and tobacco throated battle cry was soon answered by other childless and retired homeowners who decided for everyone else that the cost of good schools and an excellent education was just too high. First to go was the arts, followed closely by athletics and all other extracurricular scholarly pursuits. It didn’t take long before classrooms got larger and lessons became easier and we the students, got just plain stupider. 
 
I don’t blame rap, comic books or even comic book movies, although I do believe that movies overall during the last twenty years have mostly catered to the lowest common denominator. Most of us do not read, shun newspapers and get their intellectual fodder from social media such as Facebook. For every one person who does read a newspaper, I will give you 25 more who follow Q Anon and religiously watch and follow Fox News.
 
We truly get the government we deserve. We certainly did in 2016. The question is, do we have a chance to turn it all around. Maybe. Quite frankly, maybe not. We have three more days until November 3rd.  A final chance to maybe climb out of this tub of shit that we placed ourselves in. Most of you have already voted, and are like me, huddled in a corner, a thumb in your mouth fretting over where you should race over to the nearest Bass Sporting Goods Store to pick up a pump action shotgun or a Walther PPK.  What do you think?

“Walther PPK, 7.65 millimeter, with a delivery like a brick through a plate-glass window. The American CIA swear by them.”
Sir Sean Connery
August 25, 1930 - Oct 31, 2020. Rest in Peace