The likelihood of a second Trump-Biden face-off doesn’t help. Both seem to represent the problem not the solution. Two corrupt old men in decline, clinging to power, unable to let go or allow the future generation to step in. We are served two underwhelming dishes and told to be grateful for our delicious meal. It’s disgusting — and for some folks, it’s radicalizing.
But for others, like me, it’s demoralizing. For me, the prospect of a Trump-Biden rerun makes me so disillusioned about politics that I find myself wanting to sit this election cycle out completely. …
We are stuck in this weird purgatory between what America used to be and what it is becoming — a country in transition — but such is the history of our country. There are always parts of America on the rise and parts in decline.
What is perhaps different than any other time is that most Americans know that no one is coming to bail them out.
[What may be different this time is that Americans aren’t taking any responsibility for bailing ourselves out. We vote; we can choose differently. If this is decline, then Ron DeSantis was correct in the previous debate: Decline is a choice, and too many of us are choosing it. — Ed]
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