Fall is approaching, so is the apple season in America. My neighbor has a tall apple tree whose numerous beautiful fruits are hanging. I start with casually picking the low hanging fruit.
Deep into the season when most of the apples become ripe, I stand under the tree. Many ripe apples fall to the ground just on their own. I do not have to make any effort at all besides walking with my basket and picking up the beautiful ripe apples.
This is actually true for all fully ripening fruit; wild fruits such as Masuku and mbula, peaches, apricots, oranges, and especially mangoes. I have stood under mango trees all my life in Zambia and have seen tons of beautiful delicious mangoes almost hit my head when they are very ripe. As the Presidential election campaign has gotten very heated here in America, there are established ingrained policy arguments that responsible voters have to mull over; which candidate is better at handling immigration and the problems of illegal migrants at the Southern border with Mexico, crime, abortion, Ukraine aid, Israel/Gaza war, Taxes, health care, climate, and the economy.
All presidents benefit from the falling ripe mangoes syndrome. As soon as each of the 46 previous American Presidents elect had completed his inauguration, they could have entered the White House (which is the American State House) and just laid down on the couch in the oval office for four years and done nothing. If the economy thrives, they will be called economic geniuses even if t.