A disaster unfolded last night in Georgia
You watch or listen to The Debate last night?
Missed it myself as has to work. But did watch segments of replays later.
In the moment, it was the most cringe inducing cringe fest in politics I’ve ever witnessed. In hindsight it’s apocalyptic.
Trump clearly won. On style. And was mostly lies and fantasies. To paraphrase one commentator, “Trump was all hot air, but at least he had the air.” Biden was mostly facts, but clearly had no business being up there. The list of reasons is long. The media continues to hash out excruciating details to inadvertently demonstrate both candidates are bad for America. One must choose which man will, intentionally or unintentionally, best preserve and maintain our capitalist constitutional democratic republic and which man who will, intentionally or unintentionally, destroy it.
As it’s too late for the Republican Party to nominate a traditional moderate conservative, it’s also too late for the Democrats to pass the baton. Vice-President Kamala Harris, who probably would have destroyed Trump in a debate, is too unpopular to run. The other possible contenders are all committed to current responsibilities as in Congress or as state governors and lack time to take on a media giant. The third party candidates are all too extreme in their positions right or left, except the most popular one who is downright wacko with a self-declared dead worm in his brain.
As Trump refused to debate his fellow Republicans during the GOP primaries, Biden should have refused to debate Trump. Biden should have refused to debate a convicted felon, a usurper of the 2016 election, and a traitor during his term in office. To say that, however, is a woulda-shoulda-coulda. It’s too late. It’s summertime, and it’s Winter Solstice in America now but without the Holidays. Into the long night we go.
William Dudley Bass
Friday 28 June 2024
Shoreline/Seattle, WA
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