The country is in a period of transition from the leadership of one incoherent old man to another incoherent old man. Rather than obsessing and speculating about what the eventual results of that transition may be, at least football fans have something to distract their attention. Will Diploma Mill State beat Deadbeat A&M in the Who Cares Bowl? Will the Vikings continue to be a disappointment to their long-suffering fans?
That said, most good companies voluntarily subject themselves to stress tests. In effect, that is what a slim majority of American voters have chosen to do with a change of administration. The boundaries of what is functional or not in the federal government will be tested. Where rhetoric ends and reality begins will become apparent, except to the blind partisans of both the left and the right.
In four years, we will have a much better idea of what was reform, what was deform, what was true, and what was merely verbal flatulence. In the meantime, America will survive. To quote Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
America has a turbulent history. For those of us who lived through the ’60s, we have seen this movie before. We are still standing.
