THE BEAR

My favorite clean joke is rather prophetic.  It goes like this:


Two hikers and walking through the wilderness in Alaska. They suddenly stubble upon a snarling, charging grizzly bear.  The first hiker takes off running. The second hiker yells to him: "hey Joe! You can't outrun a grizzly bear."


The second hiker turns over his shoulder and yells back: "I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you."


This is such a wonderful parallel to life as we know it. It's not that we have to best the best, we just have to outdo the least.


Trump is president not because he was the most competent person for the job - certainly not. In 2016 he just happened to be better than the hapless crew that was running for president. He didn't have to outrun Lincoln or Jefferson...he just had to outrun Cruz and Rubio and Carson.


In fact much of our politics is this. It's not the bears who are running the show - it's just the folks who are more politically savvy, more well-funded and more able to subjugate their souls to get elected.


The Bear is excellence. The bear is truth. The bear is integrity.  In a truly just world, the bear would consume the bad people and the liars and the frauds. Problem is, the bear gets so full of the slower baddies, liars and frauds that the one's who just happen to run a little faster escape it's clutches.