Draining the Swamp?

Donald Trump’s candidacy for president started out as a joke. The joke's on me now but it is certainly no laughing matter. What should we expect over the next four years? Who knows? Me? I’m reserving my take on Donald Trump’s coming presidency for a while longer. I actually don’t believe anyone can predict what he may or may not do. We can only wait and see what happens. If he has some good people around him and LISTENS to them, maybe things will be OK. If, instead, he listens to his ego and calls some head of state a dick head, then I just don’t know. He must put the reputation of our country ahead of his enormous ego and eat some words occasionally, even though he would much rather tweet something questionable.

One of Trump’s campaign slogans, “Drain the swamp,” implied that Washington needed a good house cleaning, with which I agree. However, the voters, even those who voted for Trump, failed to drain the swamp when they reelected the same old do nothing Representatives and Senators. But even if Washington was purged of “politicians,” it wouldn’t be long before the replacements became politicians and refilled the swamp. Playing the political game is how people stay in Washington. Don’t play and you lose the game. It’s almost damned if you do and damned if you don’t.