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Searching for Answers. Getting None.

Eric Forseth
5 min readNov 3, 2020

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A neighbor drove by this afternoon and asked my wife and I if we were planning on being home tonight. I said, “yeah, I mean, huh?” She said that her friend got an email from work warning of some kind of insurrection, or riots or something later tonight after the votes start rolling in.

I listened to The Daily yesterday and caught an episode about how many people are buying guns right now, just in case—just in case riots break out and violence fills the streets and finds its way to people’s doors.

The White House currently has a large wall built around it to protect the grounds from protestors and violence in case, I suppose, Trump declares victory tonight before votes are counted.

Cool. We’re doing great. Everything is fine.

I’d love to blame this on “both sides” as is popular to do these days but the fact is that we wouldn’t be having any of these conversations if Jeb Bush or John Kasich or literally any other Republican were president right now. The anger, the rage, the instability in the country is the result of Donald Trump. He’s an instigator and he stirs the pot constantly—for attention, for ratings, because he’s bored and stupid. I don’t know.

Our president has sown seeds of doubt and encouraged a call to arms from the right and his cult of supporters. He plays an Us. V. Them game. He’s a divider. He and his supporters live in Trump’s America, the rest of us live in reality—a land they despise, or are told to fear. And here we are on…

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Eric Forseth
Eric Forseth

Written by Eric Forseth

I like writing so I write. I dabble in humor, fiction, short stories, observations and things I’ve learned.

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