Depending on how you understand the curmudgeon personality, it has either been a difficult year or a year in which curmudgeons have plenty to complain about. The leadership of the country has led us all into a very dark time. Fear and hate are never a way to move the country forward or to gain respect from others. When fear and hate compound self-centeredness, we abandon too many people who need help. Label the concern for the less fortunate as socialism if you must, but citizens should not be put off by a label they don’t understand from going the right thing.
Our local paper, the Star Tribune recently offered a recent essay showing the good heart at the core of we curmudgeons.