Kids are taught from an early age that cheaters never win. Seems like a good idea. We don't want to end up in some Mad Max world. We send them to Sunday school to learn morals and we teach them manners from Emily Post, at least we once did.
The fact is cheaters do win. If you don't get caught copying off the smart kid's test, you'll pass the exam. If the highway patrol can't outsmart your radar detector, you'll get to your destination earlier.
Show me the fellow with bone spurs who lies shamelessly, refuses to pay his bills, cheats on his taxes and wives and sells worthless trinkets to suckers, and I'll show you an American success story.
Are you listening James Comey, Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell, Nikki Haley, George W. Bush, Kellyanne Conway? Oh, the list goes on and on.
I always rooted for the villain when I went to wrestling matches as a kid. They cheated. They won.
Heaven help us all.
I was just talking to Lucy's sister on the phone. She's terrified about the election. She lives in Massachusetts and says the papers and the teevee are giving advice on how to save yourself if things get warped and the maggats drive trucks into voting sites and harass voters in line or start fights, or whip out weapons. She's panicky about that and is concerned the local police and tv may be closing their eyes to a situation they do not wish to acknowledge, as someone once said.... and we should all head for the shelters. It does make me a bit queasy to think about this maybe being the first election in US history that isn't about policies or benefits and where we sit or how, but rather about what kind of government and future lives we'll have. Or won't.
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