I just thought this would be a good time for those Americans who wished President Obama to suffer a forced retirement (and I definitely include myself in that group) to reflect on the privileges we have been given.
Only a very small minority of people who have ever lived were able to choose their leaders. Not only do we live in a democracy, we live in a place where we can vote without risking our lives. (Many people who live in nominal democracies can not say the same.) We live in a country where we can criticize our leaders without having to fear our door being knocked down in the middle of the night and our being disappeared as a consequence. We live in a country where we know for a fact that any given president will NOT be in office for more than a decade.
So my message to all who are disappointed in how the election went is this: Be of good cheer. January, 2017 is coming.
Joy,
Lynn
