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This point deserves to be repeated, so … therefore I will do so.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I will go to the Great Beyond never understanding how the American voting public could stop insisting on selecting the best among us for high office and settle for the worst among us.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Our values have been turned on their ears. We no longer care if our president is a serial philanderer, or that he is a convicted felon, lacks any semblance of a moral compass, or mocks war heroes, disabled Americans.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We set aside his lies as long as he tells us what we want to hear.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I am not going to give up on the idea that our quest for the best of us is a lost cause. It can return. Indeed, it did briefly with the election in 2020 of President Biden. Then he was gone. We got the nimrod he defeated in 2020 back for a second term after he pledged in plain English that his next term would be run with a vengeance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Many of us said, “Hey, that’s OK! As long as he delivers the goods.” Donald Trump hasn’t delivered a damn thing!<\/p>\r\n\n

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