February 4, 2020 — A Night that will live in Distraction

February 4, 2020 — a night that will live in distraction. The democrats had just finished putting Trump through a months-long investigation and subsequent impeachment, so Trump didn’t shake Pelosi’s hand, Pelosi tore up his speech, and that was the state of our union.

So were our leaders too busy fighting like children to notice a serious threat was looming? It’s a thought worth entertaining. After-all, there was a lot going on back then (or not … really): impeachment investigations, impeachment speeches, impeachment votes, tweets, whistleblowers, russia, ukraine, RUSSIA. As a matter of fact, the senate actually sequestered itself during Trump’s trial, meaning they did not allow themselves access to internet, TV, or anything else that could have alerted them to other pressing matters in this world of ours. So maybe if Congress had been doing its job: overseeing, connecting, and consulting with the executive branch of government instead of just trying to fire its president, and if the president wasn’t spending every ounce of energy fuming at the insult, we might have more easily anticipated this threat, and nipped it in the bud.

But hindsight is 2020 (pun intended).

So let’s put that aside and simply say this — Problems are best solved by people working together. And did the events of that night look like a government capable of doing that under any circumstance? No. But who cares? It was just a show … a distraction, and Americans would just have to live with it … turns out … not all of us have, and not all of us will.