Today is July 1.
Half of 2020 is in the books. And what a horrible half year it has been. We are still in phase one of a pandemic that so far has taken more than 130,000 American lives. The economy is a shambles. Millions of people have lost their jobs. Countless businesses will never reopen. People who follow public health guidelines are going stir crazy from staying at home, while others see wearing a mask as a sign of weakness and refuse to do so. Too many people still crowd bars and beaches. News has leaked that Trump's buddy Putin put a bounty on American soldiers in Afghanistan, a fact the so-called American leader knew about but refuses to act upon. His silence is deafening.
Sadly, it appears that the second half of 2020 will be equally horrible, if not more so. Cases of Covid-19 are surging in most of the country. Extra unemployment benefits are about to end, putting even more people at risk of homelessness and hunger. Congress is unable to put aside its partisan bickering to enact more relief for struggling workers. Every day seems to bring yet another power grav and another unnecessary constitutional crisis caused by the president-who-would-be-dictator.
I am a senior citizen. I don't want to wish my life away. But I really wish 2020 would end, America would regain its footing, we can start to repair the damage inflicted on us during the past 3-1/2 years, and we can finally start to move beyond the pandemic. Wishing it so won't change anything. Making this country a semblance of what it once was will take the coorperation of political leaders, everyday citizens, and an electorate willing to go to the polls in November and sweep this most corrupt administration out of office and, hopefully, into prison.
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