Awkward Politics of 2020

Politics, religion, and conspiracies… oh my!


In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Mark Twain

I have not posted anything lately because the only thing on my mind has been related to one of those three topics. I keep thinking to myself, just give it some time, and maybe something a bit less polarizing and easier to write about will come up.

Well, I’ve been waiting… and nothing else really has popped up to write about. I think the only benefit to my waiting is that I can take the viewpoint of observation and how I’ve changed rather than a post of pure frustration.

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