Feeling Lucky

 

“God watches out for children, drunks, and the United States of America”

- Attributed in various forms to Bismarck, Churchill, and others

 

One does not have to believe in divine intervention or to diminish or disparage the way Americans have earned the country’s successes by their work and decisions to notice that sometimes we do luck out. This looks like one of those times. We could have had four more years of Trump leading to who know what or a big win for the Democrats perhaps leading to harmful leftist policies or even damage to the structure of the republic. Instead  we likely will have a Republican senate to block any dangerously leftist legislation and a one term, traditional Democrat president who is not Donald Trump.  That’s not too bad as strokes of luck go.