A journey once placed me with the folks on "the other side of the tracks." Very kind, warm people and innovative. I courteously tried to be helpful with chores and the like, and mind my manners as a guest. But that was not always easy. Someone there subscribed to the National Enquirer or it might have been The Star. The headline story that week was the discovery of a WWII bomber on the moon. All I'd ever seen in my house growing up was Time magazine. I'd only seen the Enquirer at stores, and bus stations. The imp in me arose and I asked: "Do you believe this stuff?" and the answer, a little meek, was: "Well ... it could be true." Travel is a teacher if you are a learner. This should have prepared me then and there for life in America in the future. This election has been the biggest example, but there are others, of the fact that "it could be true" is good enough for a lot of people. Not the majority, except in some states, but a lot of people. Sadly, I think a very willful strain of gullibility has taken hold. Today it is Josh Hawley from the Show Me State of Mo. who is going to take away the small fun to be afforded on Epiphany Day for Joe Biden and me. And some others - actually a majority of voters, and an Electoral College majority.
Josh is going to get the ball rolling on another round of years of birther conspiracy doo-dah, when he votes to question the Electoral College results. - A son of Oahu.
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