Opinion: Inauguration Reflection
The Oracle (Photo by Ted Eytan, found under Creative Common License)
The weirdest thing about the inauguration of our next president is that I feel very numb to the entire situation. It’s hard to say you’re not a political person in the current social climate we live in but the way it has invaded every aspect of my life in the past few years, getting away from it mentally has been my priority as of late. Mostly because I don’t believe the changing of the head of state is an automatic answer to all the damage that has occurred over the past few years.
I’d like to think of myself as an optimistic pessimist but a pessimist nonetheless, and I’m not sure those in control have our best interests at heart. While on the surface the Biden Administration is the less nuclear option compared to another term of President Donald J. Trump I’m just not keen on celebrating the lesser of two evils. Eventually, I would like us as a country to get to a point where we celebrate the next president based on their merits and potential for the future, not on how they’ll be less of a headache compared to the last. I know as a country we’re so divided that we’ll never be able to agree on one person but we have to get to a point where we’re not killing each other based on our allegiances, especially when in reality they should be kept behind closed doors.
I’m sick of speaking on politics with those who don’t know me as a person, because the people in your life who don’t have no right to know such sensitive information.