I DO NOT KNOW

     That is kind of the mood I am in right now. There are so many things I do not know. I do not know if this virus will ever abate. I do not know if we are doing the right thing in opening our bubble up a bit to allow a daughter and grown up granddaughter in. I do not know when this job market will truly open up and people I know and love will be able to get back to work. I do not know what life will be like after a now looming second wave arrives.
     There are so many things and problems for which we truly  and honestly do not know the answers. No easy solutions, but supposed quick fixes have popped up. How do we fix this scary voting problem? Were those glitches in the machine on purpose, taking place mainly in black areas? Knowing the Georgia Governor and his behavior in the most recent election, well, the thought does stick in there, does it not? And while the post office seems to have fallen into some truly sloppy ways of late, with mailings taking long and nonsensical routes around, or staying within facilities for weeks at a time, it simply did not make the decision countrywide to hold back mail in ballots. If that was indeed the case, whoa, Baby!!
     So how do we solve that issue, for the election looms larger and larger in our front and rear view mirrors. Where are we heading and how has where we are coming from affected us? Will America cede that precious right to a free and honest voting process? Are we going to just shrug shoulders and beg for just a bit of peace and quiet, mistakenly thinking that no fuss about the matter is the way to go? So wrong - and that I do know.
     I neither know nor understand how people can twist themselves into knots so as to accommodate their supposed beliefs. They watch a short feel good mini video, agree so heartily with its message, to help others, to give people a chance, to hold off on quick judgements, and then praise a most revolting letter purportedly written by a law student from a top school. The letter is replete with every trope, every meme, every tired old hateful statement and phrase of hate, of right wing dangerous garbage. 
     We split the country, with the right wing taking the best and leaving what they call trash. They pervert the title America and Americans even as they insist on their right to own it. They trash every progressive thought and call down invitations to hate, placing all the things, topics and ideas that divide us into their treasure box. I do not know how they can be so blind to the past and the dangers to our future as they push this agenda. Nor do I believe that a law student wrote that, for it is as if this was written to order - and that I do know is the right thought. I do know that this should be banned from the waves, for it fits right in with the dastardly plans of those who would divide us forever, who would keep the nation in the throes of hatred, panic and confusion, as long as it is good for the market!! Those that buy into this crap are blind to the fact that their minds and bodies will fail as badly as a broken America as regulations fail or are rescinded and the world dies around us.
     I do not know so many things, and so many more topics seem to hide their solutions, the whys and wherefores from me. I freely admit that. What frightens me is when those who also do not know the answers, the permanent and positive ones, are so busy out there yelling and screaming, drowning out voices of reason, of compromise, of unity, of hope for a future, that we will never overcome our problems and we will rot from within and without.
     I do not know how we ever get out of this mess. What I do know is that we had better insure that ballots get mailed and delivered and returned in proper order. I do know that there had better be poll watchers galore to insure no hokey pokey, particularly in areas opposed to Trump. I do know that machines had better be checked by supervised and knowledgeable people who understand the vital necessity of honest tamper free voting to the continued existence of a democracy, in particular - US!
     I do know that if we truly wish to be well and stay safe that we need to be better than this. We need to shake things up, to overpower those who would overpower us with chicanery and dastardly deeds. I do know that if we do not vote against what we now have, we will never be safe nor well again. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, especially when a fake ugly hook - comes through. 
     Evade that hook. Recognize it for what it is. Know what it is. Reconcile your differences and please, please, come down on the correct side, the one of hope, of justice, of democracy, of a future, not a return to a past with dictators running this country and the 'camps' thriving! That I do know. Lincoln warned us as to the fact that a house divided against itself cannot stand and nor can a person divided against his inner truths, ignoring the truth, trying to paper over the contradictions. Nope, honesty and honor is what we need. That, I do know.