Pro Grand Kids
Yesterday was an improvisational exercise in child care.
We have committed to responsibility to care for two of the grandchildren for one day of the week. This means taking them to preschool, and picking them up several hours later, having lunch with them, and then being on hand for a mid-afternoon nap. Their parents arrive from work late in the day, at which time our responsibility for their well being is relieved.
Yesterday both children were ill with colds. Therefore we did not take them to preschool but remained at the house with them to aid in their recovery, and to also protect their school mates from the spread of virus. Grandma and Grandpa were within the orbit of a almost five year old and a four year old for a full day of playing games, (monkey-in-the-middle) and watching mud bog competition on television. Of course much more happened during our tenure. Those are just my highlights.
During the day I also had opportunity to exchange comment via cell phone with a friend about the Trump Presidency and the aftermath of the public impeachment hearings. The exchange clarified for me the foundation of my opposition to the President.
I do not want my grandchildren to live in a society characterized by rampant lying, by prevarication, by dissimilation as the norm. To my observation the President is that type of individual. Lying is his “modus operandi,” his standard operating procedure which his administration seeks to normalize. As far as I am concerned this is a inherently violent form of life, the imposition of violence by the strong, by those who have power upon those who are unable to defend themselves. It is the antithesis of justice, of a constitutional society of a regulated rule-based way of living. To support a leader who relies upon his lies is to endorse looking at the world as a Darwinian arena of combat where the strong prey upon the weak.
That is something I will oppose for the sake of my grandchildren.
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I agree entirely with your views here, Jerry, [though your “committed to responsibility to care for two of the grandchildren for one day of the week,” does perhaps indicate a lapse in your good judgement. Wouldn’t a cat or dog be better?
One does tend to believe, however, that your desire for “not want my grandchildren to live in a society characterized by rampant lying, by prevarication, by dissimilation as the norm,” would be echoed, practically verbatim, by even the most ardent Trumpist supporter. The Devil does seem to be in the details.