W EIGHTS AND MEASURES

   Title sounds a tad boring, does it not? Getting on the damn scale every morning or weighing one's produce purchases. Measuring the ingredients in a recipe. But there is more to these terms than that.
     One also has to measure and weigh oneself. Not the physical side, though it is interesting that sometimes one's inner weights and measurements do affect the outside, our own version of the portrait of Dorian Gray. Seriously, we need to often stop and take stock of our actions and decisions, our choices and see where they have led, what we have allowed or enabled.
     So people did not like Hillary. So what? Does one need to be in love with a politician to vote for them? Does not one have to choose based on experience, capability, morals? But for some reason, probably because she is a woman, she was judged by standards to which men are not held.  No one likes Trump. Even his best buds will tell you of his volatility, so bad for a leader of a country, of his arrogance, of his flip flop behavior. So why did people allow themselves to vote for him? Because they voted as children. They are weighed and found wanting, choosing the president of the Student Council because the winner gave out chocolate bars, or was a glib speaker, or was a "popular" kid, or was intimidating. In other words, with nothing of the measures that a good head of Council should have.
     Put one's votes on the scales and see if it weighs in properly. In this case, it did not for many people, certainly not the majority of the population. It weighs wrongly in the moral turpitude division. It weighs wrongly in the liar division. It weighs wrongly in the poor moral values division. It weighs wrongly in the poorly adjusted division. In other words, it weighs wrongly in all the divisions that should have a light and pure weight, one with clear vision, one with no fat  or impurities to destroy it.
     There has never been another President, to my perhaps limited knowledge, that is so sued, litigated against and morally challenged as this one. He cannot keep it in his pants nor keep his mouth shut. He engages in bouts of potty mouth and behaves as a spoiled infant. And why again did one vote for this man? Because Hillary was strong in her behavior? Because she said it the way it was just as he supposedly did, only she spoke out of knowledge and he spoke out of another portion of his anatomy, but she is a woman, hence judged otherwise.
     Well, today and at least for the next three years we have another chance to redeem ourselves, to find an honest scale, to find the proper ingredients for our recipe for our lives, for our choice for leader. Not the one who cheats on a wife with his newborn babe, but for a woman who finds the inner strength to keep her marriage going in the face of shameful behavior by her husband, and why? For the sake of the stability of the country.
     We have to understand that during the next three years there are going to be strong women weighing in with their own recipes for leadership, for the future of the country, for a way to redeem ourselves and our mental, moral and physical environments. We need to weigh better, truer. We need to look within ourselves for the scales of truth, not the scales of infancy with an oh yeah, I'll show you attitude. In fact, let us show the world what America can be again, that we have not lost our way, that we have stopped deporting people with green cards, people who are productive members of society because they were born in another country. We need to stop this tearing apart of families.
     We need to put an end to the reign of one who accuses his opponents of dastardly crimes. The press becomes the enemy of the people?!! The Democrats become complicit in murder? What the hell is going on? We are losing our connection to democracy and allowing a nasty creeping autocracy with Trump as King Donald I.
     People have been told throughout history that they have been weighed and found wanting. Let us open our eyes, tell the truth, damn the liars and forge ahead in a proper manner. Let us weigh in properly, measure properly. Uh, chocolate - no weight gain there, folks, so not to worry!!!