Oh Cloudy Crystal Ball...

The following is a not so direct response to what was written here...

http://www.nicolavincent-abnett.com/2016/11/why-trump-won.html

I can't say much about "pride".
I put it in funny little quotes because I'm not real sure I know exactly what it is.  It might be a poison-filled snake for all I know.
I have small moments of what I consider pride, I try not to dwell in it because it seems to hurt me more than help me.
If I'm always striving to be better, there's not much room for pride in that growth angle.
I will say that I recently typed my first story and upon hearing a small amount of praise from a significant person, my core was rocked and I didn't know how to handle it.
I shaved my head and gave twenty-seven inches of my hair to a company that creates wigs for sick children.

I think if we take a big step or two back, the recent election was not entirely about pride.  It wasn't even about anger.
At its gooey center, it was about money (isn't everything nowadays and come on, you can't say you're surprised right...)

As in, people are frustrated when they don't have enough.  How much is enough?  I'm not sure there is an amount we could place in that blank eh.
Do women want money less than men?  Do black people or how about hispanics?  Does the ISIS want less?  The Russians?   Bueller...  Bueller..?
(It's a Ferris Bueller reference.)

I see the desperation and I see how the rich hoard their money and want only to increase it, in any way possible.
I see how we spend mczillions on publicity for election candidates and that money all goes, where exactly?
I see how we spend boatloads of money on "the war on drugs" that the Regans escalated in the eighties and most states are voting to legalize marijuana.
I see how we spend less money, training our police officers than we spend, training our hair stylists.
I see how the system must surely be broken when we constantly reward people for bad behavior.  Look up a "Mike McQueary" with "7.3 million" for example.

I don't have the solutions.  There might not be any.
Should we divide the money equally among all our citizens and when people run out, we tell them "sorry 'bout that, you had your chance."
Should some people, depending on where they live or who their parents were, just have more?
What if we made it a global thing and gave every single human three thousand dollars (or pounds).  Would that help the Ethiopians have clean water?

I don't believe Donald Trump, the Trumpinator or my recent favorite, "Emperor Trump", is the answer.
If he's not, we'll grow even angrier, possibs a little smarter, mabes we'll even raise our pitchforks and torches again for a little while.
But until we figure out "the money problem", no one will ever be happy enough to vote without the greed clouding our visions.