Nov. 5. It’s coming at us fast.
The divisiveness is dragging us down. I keep hearing that, “our bipartisan bill”; to be perfectly clear, the only bipartisan cooperation that I see is to protect the insider trading that’s going on among our elected officials, both sides being complicit in this. But, I digress.
The election.
Americans love to hate. Many members of both sides show open hostility toward anyone who shows any sort of support for their opponents. Many people show absolute, lockstep fanaticism for “their” party. Any kind of negative rumors are absolutely believed and gleefully spread, no matter how ridiculous. Anything negative about their own candidate is called lies, fake news, etc.
No matter what, not everything the opposition does is a bad idea, or socialism, or fascism, since apparently a lot of people have no idea what those terms mean. Trying to get your medical insurance premiums down is not socialism, and wanting the border/immigration issues fixed does not make one a racist.
And besides all that, there really isn’t much difference between the two parties, no matter how much they’re demonized.
So get out there and vote. It won’t make any difference in my life, whoever wins. It won’t make a difference in your life either.
Boris Roberts
Santa Maria
This article appears in Oct 24 – Nov 3, 2024.