Well, most of us made it through another year, while many of our neighbors, friends, family, and acquaintances did not.
2020 was particularly strange, but in 20/20 hindsight, I suppose that they are all strange in some respects.
Never in my 60 years on earth can I remember so many terrified people acting as if the world was coming to end, simply because a certain faction of government overlords were trying to make it seem that way.
The Coronavirus was the main topic that captured most of the talking points throughout the year, even though by using just a little common sense, it should not have been.
Yes, people got sick, but it was not any worse than the previous years when people were sickened by the cold and flu.
The only exception is that in 2020 it was given an ominous-sounding name and people started freaking out by buying up toilet paper and hand sanitizer, while self-quarantining because a bunch of mayors and governors quit serving the people and instead turned into petty dictators telling the people what to do.
What was even more weird was how the people reacted, almost as if they forgot they had a brain, much less inalienable rights, as they kowtowed to every mandate and ordinance by shutting down their businesses and staying home.
Now, toward the end of the year, all of the mandates have basically destroyed the American economy, with the exception of a few large chain operations, and people are either incapable of taking care of themselves, as they wait for handouts from food lines or the government.
Probably not since The Great Depression has America looked so feeble and disoriented, as those same public tyrants keep lording it over the people and they just stand by and take it.
It is simply amazing.
Then, it was day after day after day, even up to the last day of the year, of media drivel about positive test cases and alleged deaths due to the China virus, without ever actually telling everyone that the China virus had been conflated with the cold and flu viruses, thereby misleading the public.
In fact, one Canadian doctor, Roger Hodkinson, recently came out and said, “There is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians. It’s outrageous. This is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.”
But, who listens to anyone, anymore, when the commentary does not fit the contemporary narrative that would rather see people unnecessarily die than to get well and move on with productive lives?
The China virus was not the only monotonous topic of the year.
There was the coup attempt against the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
Relentless accusations, libel, and slander all highlighted the efforts to bring down probably the best President the United States has had since Ronald Reagan.
So, the Democrats went ahead and impeached him, for nothing substantive or real, only to turn around later and conduct acts of treason to vote him out of office through fraud and chicanery.
Again, never in my lifetime have I ever witnessed such a spectacle as the 2020 Election in November.
On Election Tuesday my wife and I cast our votes for President Trump and then went home to watch the night’s events unfold.
By all accounts leading up to the election, Donald Trump should have totally wiped out Joe Biden in a landslide victory, with the exception of a handful of Leftist-Marxist states that are all but a lost cause to the Republic.
Three hours into watching the poll results, with Donald Trump clearly winning the election, things started to get weird.
Suddenly, poll centers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, and Arizona went dead; nothing was coming forth in the same smooth fashion as in the previous hours.
It would not be for at least another week before the results came in and then out of the blue, ballots came in that allegedly showed a fantastic comeback by Joe Biden and he swept every state except North Carolina.
Later it was discovered that the Democrats had pulled all kinds of illegal shenanigans, from garnering votes from the deceased to thousands of people voting more than once to center workers in places such as Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta scanning and re-scanning ballots, in certain instances up to ten times per ballot, with all of the votes going for Joe Biden.
It was, and still is, absolutely shameful that so much corruption, lying, and deception could take place among those claiming to be Americans.
Whether President Trump will be able to weather the storm and be re-elected remains to be seen.
Tentatively, it appears that he will be cheated out of his Presidency, although more and more individuals are coming forth to contest the election, and rightfully so.
Whatever the case, it was and is beyond ridiculous what happened, and if it is not corrected, it may forever change America for the worse.
Of course, those were not the only stories that impacted 2020, as being perhaps one of the worst years in American history since September 11, 2001.
There were several celebrities that past into eternity too.
Some of those I could relate to were Wilford Brimley, Lou Brock, Kobe Bryant, Sean Connery, Robert Conrad, Mac Davis, Brian Dennehy, Kirk Douglas, Tony Fernandez, Whitey Ford, Bob Gibson, Paul Hornung, Al Kaline, Tom Kennedy, Don Larsen, Joe Morgan, Johnny Nash, Fred “Curly” Neal, Phil Niekro, Ken Osmond, Regis Philbin, Charley Pride, Helen Reddy, Carl Reiner, Kenny Rogers, Gale Sayers, Don Shula, Tom Seaver, John Thompson, Peter Tork, Alex Trebek, Eddie Van Halen, Max von Sydow, Lyle Waggoner, Dawn Wells, Fred Willard, Bill Withers, and Chuck Yeager.
May they rest in peace.
That said, Goodbye 2020! Goodbye and good riddance!
Hopefully 2021 is much better, with less lying, corruption, and fraud that plagued 2020.
The first three weeks in January 2021 will be a good indicator of whether that hope is a reality.
Otherwise, we may be in for a repeat. God have mercy.
