Assuaged

I'm not ever going back to the US if I can help it. No one cares about me and my absence won't be missed but my sense of morality will be assuaged. Roughly twice the population of my country twice voted for an idiot criminal and a rapist likely without much hesitation. 

Meanwhile television stations of states bordering Canada wonder aloud if Canadian tourists aren't coming because of the exchange rate with an obtuseness of missing the point that makes one's blood boil.

I have people in my own family who rationalize their strange political ideas. They will choose an issue like an abortion and ignore that the politician on their side of the issue is a heartless psychopath who doesn't care about disenfranchised people. I have come to terms with this kind of disconnect in some people.

This is hard for me to swallow but it completes a circle of understanding of human nature as I live the last third of my life. My illusions about people have been permanently dispelled as some triumphantly trumpet their stupidity on social media with no hint of shame or self-doubt. The Dunning-Kruger effect very much lives on. 

I have told my children that as they get older the amount of idiots they encounter will grow sharply. It's not that their number has grown but their ability to recognize them will drastically improve.

There are some wonderful and glorious souls in this world but sadly they are outnumbered.