Tomorrow is election day.
After seeing ad after ad, after burning reams of fliers through the mail (never read), after hours of discussions and even more hours avoiding commercial TV, it is finally here.
As a teacher of history, I can honestly say I feel sorry for high school students 50 years from now for the extra homework they will receive to try to explain the 2024 election.
Bizarre would be an understatement. Clown show would probably more accurately describe it.
We have seen the American institutions of media and government sink to their lowest levels. We have seen our trust in these institutions sink to their lowest levels, and as of today, they have done absolutely nothing to attempt to rebuild it. And no matter the outcome of tomorrow, that mistrust will likely continue for years to come.
We have witnessed what a society that has completely embraced the serpent’s temptation from the Garden of Eden looks like:
• Everyone making up their own definitions of right and wrong;
• Truth becoming wishy-washy and fluctuating out of control;
• History being rewritten before our very eyes—even history as late as the week before;
• People who have little to no understanding of what a Nazi is calling others a Nazi in an lazy effort to discredit their opponent;
• Our president, who once said “we need to tone down the heated rhetoric” calling his opponent’s supporters “garbage”;
• The White House rewriting the official transcripts of said insult to claim something different;
• Not one, but two assassination attempts of a president or former president—something in which similar acts in American history can be counted on one hand (plus maybe a finger or two on the other;
• “Experts” in the media attributing these attempts to the “overheated rhetoric” of the victim while using the same overheated rhetoric themselves;
• Media experts making no connection to their own previous contradictions and or insults (i.e., hiding the mental decline of Biden, and then questioning—with zero evidence—the cognitive abilities of their opponent;
• A presidential coup committed by his own side, forcing him out of the race and replacing him with a candidate who has exhibited the leadership skills of a knee pad;
• This same candidate, who as late as July, possessing only a 28% approval rating, suddenly having a 49% approval rating in the first week as a candidate;
• A media who threw off any attempt to appear objective to deliberately cover for the Democratic candidate’s inabilities and odd idiosyncrasies.
This is in no way an exhaustive list. But one thing is clear: we Americans had better start demanding more of these institutions.
The ultimate responsibility rests with us.
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