A Quick Rumination On America

Having spent the past week driving from San Francisco to New York, meeting and listening to those deplorables wearing John Deere baseball caps and working in unsavory jobs that are necessary to keeping a nation functioning, I learned some things.

They’re just like you. They care about their family, their country, the downtrodden and the marginalized. They care about hard work, honesty and integrity. They want everyone to do well, to be well, to thrive.

They are smart and stupid, concerned and confused. They are just like you.

They just see different answers to the problems. If we could accept the premise that people can differ as to how best to address problems, rather than pigeonhole everyone as good and evil, we might be able to fix things rather than waste all our energy hating each other. They’re just like you. And me. And us.

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22 thoughts on “A Quick Rumination On America”

        1. SHG Post author

          You know what’s funny about it? The roof wasn’t red. I wonder if Irony Motel would make a good name.

          1. REvers

            Welcome back!

            And if you’re ever in OKC again, a little advance notice would be swell. Did you make it to Leo’s?

            1. SHG Post author

              We had no idea where we would be from moment to moment, but wherever we ended up was where we were. We ended up going to a barbecue joint closer to the motel. We were beat.

  2. Jim Tyre

    Congratulations for surviving San Francisco, and welcome back. I’m loathe to admit it, but I missed your blog posts.

  4. KP

    Pictures or it didn’t happen!

    Surely there’s more to America than we see in Hollywood and the MSM…?

    1. SHG Post author

      I have pics, but frankly, if you’ve seen one pic of the grand canyon, you’ve seen them all.

  5. Mike Guenther

    Glad you got back safe and sound. Red Roof Inn…They are hit or miss, having stayed in a few between here and there.

    Hope you checked out a dive or two in your travels. First place I look for in a new town in my travels is a local dive bar close to my hotel. First, the people are more interesting and second, the beer is usually cheaper.

    Guess next week I’ll be looking for a dive in Santa Fe, NM. Got any recommendations?

    Whether one thinks so or not, it seems like Trump has the pulse of the nation.

    For all our sakes, I sure hope so.

    1. SHG Post author

      I don’t think Trump really has the pulse of the nation, certainly not in any nuanced way, but I’m certain Hillary didn’t.

    2. Casey Bell

      I’m not sure what you mean when you say Trump has the pulse of the nation. If you mean that he has the ability to tap into the fears and worries of a certain segment of the nation, I will agree. Like any good con artist or ladies man, he reads people well and is able to tell them what they want to hear and make them believe his promises. But it’s all an act, an act that maybe a 3rd of Americans
      actually buy into, but enough to get him elected when you add in the votes of the Hillary haters.

    1. Eliot J CLingman

      Perhaps America is senile more than doomed. A country can go senile and stay that for hundreds of years.

        1. Eliot J Clingman

          If one interprets history as cyclical rather than linear, then a country can ossify, or to put it more brutally, go senile. A country’s life span exceeds a human one, so it could stay in a state of decrepitude for a long time.

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