Dan Williams aka, Hunter Dan, IM’d me on Facebook. “Why in the hell haven’t you guys posted even ONE story about the passing of the great American hero, John McCain?!?!?!” (Punctation in original.)
Whatever we may think John McCain was as a younger man, he became something else later in life.
To that point, I asked myself, would he have enjoyed knowing that a parade of ruling class elites like himself (the very people whose indifference to the will of the American people were responsible for the election of Donald Trump and his agenda) used the occasion of his death to bash the sitting U.S. President and his policies?
I believe the answer is yes. He would have enjoyed it very much.
I bear no ill will upon the dead nor his family. I pray for his soul, and my heart goes out to his friends and colleagues. People who knew him loved him and will miss him.
But whatever John McCain was in his younger life, his older self worked to destroy the very thing for which we assume he joined the military. That thing for which he is so often remembered.
His thinking it was the right thing to do does not make it so.
I appreciate his service to the country, but I do not appreciate many of the things he tried to do the country after that. I opposed them as a matter of principle, and I still do.
May he rest in peace.
