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THE HUNGER GAME


 It's been five long years, it feels like ten, of constant headlines pounding us with the Trump sledgehammer. 

I'll admit to being a news junkie with a penchant for digital gadgets, iPhone, MacBook, iPad, Garmin VivoSmart 4, and car radio tuned to Bloomberg.

Ever since the nomination process in 2015, all we've heard about was this guy from NY, his TV show, The Apprentice, and his book, The Art Of The Deal both of which have proven to be prescient. Little did we know that serving as the POTUS was an apprenticeship.

"An apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading)."

Serving as POTUS is not an apprenticeship, the recruit must be ready to lead on day one. Some would excuse Trump's series of mistakes and blunders as rookie missteps but the game of governance is not the NFL, it's a Hunger Game with deadly consequences for amateur players, Trump was an amateur who didn't know it, the worst kind. In his dystopian world, things get done by fear and intimidation not motivation and reward.

"If you are feeling daunted by a person or an entity, because of their physical presence or behavior towards you; you are being intimidated. When you are scared, you are scared about a possible outcome or about something gone bad. This is mostly situational or contextual. "

Joe Biden is not a rookie apprentice, he's a trained professional politician with 40 years of experience. Some suggest that we need a businessman to run the country, this is wrong, a business is a dictatorship, America is a Democracy:

"Democracy: a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."

Managing a democracy is a demanding job requiring specific training and skills learned through a system of education, Political Science, and apprenticeship,

Joe is not the perfect candidate, they never are, but he is a trained professional who will lead us out of the swamp created by his predecessor. 

God Bless America and her leaders!

Deo Volente.  


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