Savage Words: A ‘dark’ day for America

Before you roll your eyes at the headline, read this to the end - please - because I normally don’t write about things like this. After all, there’s nothing I can do about it. What’s done is done … yet again.

Some folks are going to disagree with me, and that’s fine. We all have our own unique opinions. I like to think most agree with me, but obviously that’s not the case. If they did, we wouldn’t be going through this again.

But given the events of last week, there’s a lot of people in the United States scratching their heads, uneasy even, about the future. I feel their pain.

Last week brought with it a dark day in American history. We’ll never all agree on it, and some people are - in my mind anyway - inexplicably happy that it occurred. I just can’t understand why, but some are. I suppose there’s some reasoning behind it, but I’ll never understand it. Never.

There was hope in America that it would soon be ending, that somehow, we could move past this annoying scourge that has darkened our doors in years’ past. It brings people down. Not everyone, like I said, but for a large portion of our population, people are down about it. For them, a feeling of dread has crept in.

And it won’t affect just the people in the United States. What happened last week will indeed touch almost everyone in the U.S., but also many around the world, including Europe, large portions of South America, Canada and Australia. Last week’s occurrence will have a ripple effect across the globe.

That’s powerful.

Although it just happened last week and it’s likely still fresh on everyone’s mind, this has been brewing for quite some time. Actually, it dates back to World War I when this uneasiness, this awkwardness, this unpleasantness first darkened our doorways.

It intensified in World War II, and in 1974 the darkness really came to power in the United States. That’s when it overwhelmed American society as it gained massive prominence from Maine to California.

And I don’t understand it. 

Why? Why … can’t we change things? Why are people, mostly politicians, in our country so ignorant to this change? It seems so obvious to me, but we – as smart, intelligent and free-thinking Americans - continue to trip over ourselves. We just can’t get it right.

But I have hope. 

I’m confident, my fellow Americans, that we’ll get it right someday.

We’re all going to be OK. 

Eventually, we’ll all become wiser and we’ll never let the events of last week happen again.

Eventually, we will rid ourselves of Daylight Savings Time.