Americans Are Resilient!

The election is over.  America has spoken. We are a country divided. Trump won the electorate. Clinton won the popular vote. Which frightens me enough to write this post.

Today's post is to remind all the Americans anywhere near my age that it really doesn't matter who is President of these United States.  We will survive.  

We may not like it, or we may love it, but either way, we will survive, and, no matter who is in power, the other political party will come back into power in just a few more years.

This is why we study history.

I, personally, have lived through the presidencies of:

1955	Dwight Eisenhower	Republican
1961	John F. Kennedy	Democrat
1963	Lyndon B. Johnson	Democrat
1969	Richard M. Nixon	Republican
1974	Gerald Ford	Republican
1977	Jimmy Carter	Democrat
1981	Ronald Reagan	Republican
1989	George Bush	Republican
1993	Bill Clinton	Democrat
2001	George W. Bush	Republican
2009	Barack Obama	Democrat
2016	Donald Trump	Republican

I've lived through more Republicans than Democrats.  I have not yet lived through even one president that I totally agreed with on the issues, so I'm choosing to be optimistic and hopeful this morning.

That's my soapbox for today.