Look, with all due respect — we’ve got to snap out of it.

Enough with the doom and gloom.

But when has America ever been a country that wanted to really know itself?

Seriously …

Let’s start with 1776 to 1783. Who believes there was no introspection taking place during this time? No soul-searching and the asking of deep-seated questions about future and survival?

Next would be 1860 to 1865. The Civil War. The one that cost us 500,000 dead and millions of walking wounded.

Because we sometimes seem to run headlong into chaos, does not mean we never consider what just took place. A country who buries its head in the sand and keeps it there for over two centuries, ceases to be a country. And that’s a fact.

Sure, we may make mistakes — in fact we make some really huge ones, but we have a habit of correcting them. Not fully, not perfectly, but then let’s hold up another example from around the world that can make that claim.

We’re not great as a nation because some orange-toned doofus claims we are and embroids it on his hat. We’ve earned the right to call ourselves great, because we’ve been down, we’ve been stupid, we’ve used other people miserably and should be kicked in our collective asses for doing it, but in the end we’ve at least attempted to make things right. To accept change and responsibility.

Have you ever tried to repair a motorcycle while you were riding it?

Trying to fix our electoral system and the country and the economy, while keeping The Trump out of the White House for the next four years is a recipe for regret and recrimination.

We had some great candidates. They got up there, they talked, they yelled, they held their ground …. isn’t that something to be proud of? Let’s see them doing that is Russia or China, Turkey or the Philippines — the homes of Trump’s favorite allies and role models.

Bottom line — we need to focus on what’s right, not perfect, not warm and fuzzy, but what’s right for 2020. Let’s get someone elected who will at the very least be a steward for America over the next four years, while we take this country in for some much needed servicing.