We'll weather the election turmoil

As I write my column on Monday this old grandpa is babysitting. Actually “baby” is sort of a misnomer as the grandson is a strapping fourteen years of age. The rest of our extended family is scattered to the four winds and my office is in the home — well why not? The young man has a slight fever, doesn’t feel well and sleeps a lot so double tasking is no problem. We pray that it isn’t the COVID-19 pandemic come to rest on this household and time will tell. So it is in life for a great many families in today’s current pandemic. I’m personally looking forward to getting the inoculation and life returning to normal. Oh the wonders of modern medicine.

I’ve a question. If it proves out that our new president has been wrongly elected through proven fraud will he be an illegitimate president? Evidently it is the view of the Trump team that the Nov. 3 election was fraught with illegal ballots in enough states that our present President should be granted a second term and Joe Biden won’t win the contest. The Democrats seem to ignore any impropriety of this election and have already set up their man, Joe Biden, in “the office of president elect!” What a mess!

It looks to me that the Democrat’s bad feelings go all the way back to the 2000 election where the Supreme Court, in the case of the “hanging chads,” in Florida eventually resulted in George W. Bush being declared winner over Al Gore. It was the start of the divisiveness that has so separated the Conservative Republicans from the more Progressive Democrats. President Barack Obama continued to stir the pot during his two terms in office. Then when Hillary was narrowly defeated by Donald Trump the flood gates opened. The Progressive Democrats fought Trump all the way. They dreamed up Russian collusion that actually placed ballots for Trump in the election boxes, no proof, Hillary’s paid for her fictional dossier, the Mueller report of no substance and finally a fictional impeachment by the House that failed in the Senate.

Now the shoe is on the other foot. The allies of Trump are finding massive voter fraud, committed by some or many persons yet unknown that so far has tipped the count in favor of Joe Biden. It will all have to be settled before the state’s electors meet in December and then officially declare the winner. Stay tuned.

The country’s state of divisiveness that we see played out on TV doesn’t seem to be happening in our own community here in Southwest Nebraska. I personally know and have great respect for several friends that confess that they voted for Biden and share no hard feelings toward them. Obviously I prefer that Trump would have cleanly won the election but to lose friends over such a thing is unthinkable. About all I can do to display my feelings at this point is to fly my Trump flag upside down which is an international sign of distress.

Even if Joe Biden and his Vice Kamila Harris are inaugurated into office on the 20th of January I suspect that the good feeling for each other in this community will not change. Whichever way it goes we will get through the next four years with either a Democrat or Republican as our next President.

On a different subject there will be two trials coming up in this county in the future. I’m wondering how I can volunteer to be on both of those juries. One will be the trial of the older lady who after years of abuse shot her sleeping husband.

I’d lean toward freeing her from jail immediately and thank her for curing her own problem. The other involves the man who executed a reported deviate who was allegedly having sex with his 14 year old daughter.

I think that dad deserves a medal and immediate freedom. Sure I don’t have all the facts, only what I read in the media, but it looks to me that when our legal system drops the ball and citizens have to take the law in their own hands they should not be punished.

Do you suppose I would have any chance of sitting on either jury?

That is the way I saw it.

Dick Trail