New Year, Same Old, 20 & 21. A New Beginning.
Yesterday was a happy day. Finally, the orange man left the White House, and power went to the person who had been chosen by the majority of people to govern them. I watched some of the Inauguration online, and let my English students watch. If there hadn't been a pandemic, it would have been on a par with the first Inauguration of Barack Obama. What a stark contrast to four years ago! Two women singers, one of whom called out part of the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish, one famous country singer, a young Black poet laureate, and the swearing in of the first woman Vice-President by a woman Justice of the Supreme Court. It was so good to listen to the President call out for unity, It was so good to hear the President speak in full, intelligent sentences. It was so good to hear a President talk to everybody instead of simply his sycophants. The four years of obstruction, of stoking hatreds, of using the public as if it were the private, are over. But it's not over. The forces th...