Quiz time, kids: What part of our political existence has suffered the most grievous example of collateral damage from the current political climate?
Time’s up. I’ll offer my own belief. The greatest casualty happens to be, in my view, the political friendships that at one time survived whatever political differences existing between politicians.
The wounds being inflicted these days almost appear to be mortal in nature. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump calls Kamala Harris “not very smart.” He questions her ethnicity. The convicted felon accuses the current president, Joe Biden, of being the most corrupt politician in history.
For her part, Harris will not let anyone forget about the disgraceful conduct Trump endorsed during his term as POTUS.
There once was a time in this country when losing presidential candidates would lick their wounds, concede to the winner and then pledge to work with the winner to solve the nation’s problems. Trump brought us a whole new element into how not to lose an election. He never conceded he lost to Joe Biden in 2020 and then commenced to sic the mob onto Congress to stop the certification of the 2020 electoral result.
I will presume that Harris wins this election. Can you imagine Trump doing anything different from what he did in 2020? Hillary Rodham Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016, even had the good taste and grace to offer to work with Trump as he sought to build his administration. So did Mitt Romney and John McCain, who lost to Barack Obama in 2012 and 2008, respectively.
These days political foes have become mortal enemies.
I much prefer the time when foes would batter each other with hammer and tong … and then shake hands when it ended. It’s the democratic way.
Totally agree. Politics changed enormously for the worse when donald presented his orange face on the scene. Never, that I know of, except perhaps Nixon’s paranoia, have we ever had a person run for president with such obvious and severe mental health issues that a 1st year psychology major can easily identify and diagnose. He is a textbook, classic narcissist, sociopath, pathological liar, with psychopathic tendencies. And to think, this individual could hold the nuclear weapons’ codes! What in the hell is wrong with 45% of the country? Seriously. I used to think it was simply party over country, now I’m beginning to believe it is the brainwashed over country.