Time to celebrate, and I don’t know which of the winners’ parties I’d rather attend. There is the extravaganza for American oligarchs (hedge fund managers, real estate moguls) at Club 21, or President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, or the KGB’s oligarchs with the other kleptocrats at their vodka-drenched bacchanalia in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin.
Since I won’t be invited to any of them, I plan on joining some of my buds for a Bud at the Legion, there to ponder what we may now expect for the continuity of our Social Security and Medicare and further threats to our environment, society and, of course, our democracy.
Happy New Year.
Dean O. Allen
Kansas City
