It certainly appears that Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will become the 46th president of the United States in January.

The 2020 election has been a tragic embarrassment to this country. Both sides of the only aisle that really exists in the United States have acted in outrageous, ridiculous manners.

This wasn’t just your normal mud-slinging that comes with political campaigns. The public has been forced to endure accusations of nearly every criminal act and sinister plot ever imagined.

There will be no reconciliation between the Biden and Trump camps. There will mostly likely be an ugly and awkward transfer of power with a complete lack of cooperation and encouragement.

So how do we move forward? Must we accept four years of constant harassment from the GOP in retaliation for the hell that Nancy Pelosi and her followers put about President Donald Trump?

Our guess is yes; that will start immediately.

The China accusations and the Russian accusations will be reworded and paraphrased over and over until 2024 is upon us. This is our new reality for politics and it is shameful.

It is time for more moderate thinking to assist the right and the left in finding some common ground.

The real fear that people are suffering today includes the possibility of huge shifts in policies that are in place not just from the past four years but for decades.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put us in a horrible financial bind. No amount of finger pointing will change where we are.

Both sides can find fault within their own leadership as to how the pandemic was handled, how the efforts to rescue the economy with a variety of stimulus packages was kidnapped by each party to use as political pawns and how each party twisted facts and science about the truth of the virus potential risks.

Neither party has any interest in meeting in the middle or giving up any ground.

We need some leaders with foresight that can step in and bring sound reasoning to this chaos. Can the new president do this? We are hoping so and willing to give him the same chance we gave President Trump four years ago.

Based on his age, Joe Biden will most likely be a one-term president. If so he will probably spend a lot of time trying to position Kamela Harris as his possible successor. That is how politics work.

But the one good thing that any elected official has when they know they won’t be running again is they can better follow their conscience and make more honest decisions and policy without as much pressure to please people for political sake but rather for good reasoning.

Our biggest hope is that the president-elect looks outside his immediate circle of political cronies, as none other has done, and gets some non-partisan and less political advisers for positions concerning the economy, health care, homeland security, and foreign affairs.

We suppose that is way too much to ask Santa Claus for all in the same year but let’s hope he can find away to put some of that thinking into the hearts and minds of the White House, the Congress, and the Supreme Court.

This is way too important to leave to political parties to solve. It is time for all people to step up, without the use of violence, to lift your voice and demand better of our leaders. God Bless President Trump, God bless Joe Biden and God bless the United States of America.

— RV