Sunday, January 1, 2017

A Juvenocracy in 140 Characters
In my view, we need to turn away from the daily twitter circus parading our pathetically insecure president-elect across our news feeds and focus on powerfully being the change, living the alternative, rejecting his juvenile bullying approach to life and doing our best to use him when we can and oppose him when we must to advance policies that will make us all stronger together.

 At the same time, his New Year's tweet is worthy of at least a passing glance.

Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!

He starts strong, if overly safe with Happy New Year. I wonder if this is his war on Christmas, since he is clearly choosing not to say Merry Christmas & and Happy New Year as all good god-fearing Christians not warring on Christmas do?

Then he takes an interesting turn with including to all my enemies and those who have fought me. I wonder if what he means to call on us all to love our enemies as ourselves?

But then he dashes all hope that his message might be about inspiration or leadership or even being an adult by concluding with and lost to me so badly they just don't know what to do. I wonder if he recognizes that this is the language of a three-year old throwing temper tantrum after staying up way past his bedtime...

...and entirely inconsistent with the last-minute addition of Love! to the message, almost in the spirit of Southerner who has just pointed out that a she hates her neighbor and tries to then cover it with 'bless her heart.'

We have a juvenile in charge who, like every other juvenile is not an innocent child but a full grown body without yet any development of emotional intelligence, maturity, or self-awareness. 

Year One of our Juvenocracy begins.

With a tweet.

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