So Why Am I Here Today?

I bet you've thought about starting blog. (If you have already, well good for you. I'm not talking to you yet.) As you imagined the blog you would write, you also found reasons to write it later. There's always tomorrow to make the first post right. Since the day I heard the word 'blog', the same happened for me.

I would wake up, my mind racing with fresh thoughts. As I drank my coffee, the caffeine would untangle neurons, and those thoughts would hone into full mental pontification. I would begin a blog. My words will be so creative and insightful, they'll shudder through the internet, spread only by the force of their eloquence. Followers will begin to whisper. “Who is this Gadfly?” I'll appear on the Tonight Show....

Anyway, you get the point.

Of course such thoughts always work out better in coffee stimulated daydreams, than they do in life. A blog is work. You can always daydream now and start tomorrow.

So what changed?

Well, events are happening, unlike none I have seen in my life. The times deserve my shouting whispers to vainly attempt to be heard. I know I join multitudes who have the same shouting whispers, and as corny as it is to say: 'Now is not the time to be silent'.

I am of course talking about the possibility of a Trump presidency.

Ironically, I just told you that this is not why I am here. I just said, I'm not here to change minds or go on some agenda. Now, you can see, I am going to rant like a zealot about the end of the world, fire falling from the sky, cats living with dogs...

Well, maybe not that bad. But still bad. Bad enough for me to engage in some short term hypocrisy, and yes, even start a blog and send some tweets.

In my next post (maybe a few), I will attempt to explain why Trump is different. I hope to do so in a reasoned way without relying on knee jerk reactions, overused rhetoric, and amateur psychology.

And then, I will get back to what I hoped this blog would be when I first daydreamed about it.

But for now, the danger of Trump does require us to speak out without hesitation or doubt. (Besides, I have so many Trump jokes.)