"We're not stupid."

Today would have been my mother's 101st birthday.  A blunt spoken person, Hilda Fishback would have been horrified that she would be on Earth for that milestone.  With incredibly rare exceptions, the human body is not constructed for that sort of longevity.

I am grateful that she passed away before Donald Trump became president.  It would have been heartbreaking for her to see all she worked for and hoped for in the world being eroded and  possibly destroyed.

Recently, polling in Florida has revealed a massive shift among seniors against the president.  They are seeing through the lies.

My mother always saw through the lies.  The Florida report reminded me of something reported in the Washington Post in 2006, when my mother was 87 years old.  At a campaign forum run by a retirees organization in which perennial conservative gadfly Robin Ficker was making ad hominem attacks on Ike Leggett (who won that election for Montgomery County (MD) County Executive), Hilda Fishback took Ficker on, ending her response with this simple sentence:  "We're not stupid."  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092701157_pf.html ("Hard to Charm" item)