Incivility Cubed

The public debate of presidential candidates was everything we expected: uncivil; rowdy; bullying; and untruthful. All this from one person, the woebegone incumbent of the White House. We expected this outcome so much we didn’t watch the debate. The campaign is sickening enough; so too, the news. A debate mirroring the same would be disheartening.

One person arrives professional and respectful. But one sided conversation is nothing but a memoir, or a Shakespearean aside. A debate ought to be a reasoned discussion based on facts and calm logic. Politics doesn’t allow such to happen; hasn’t for several campaigns now.

The debates ought to be abandoned. They are nothing but planned trouble.

Instead, the candidates should be campaigning about their own programs, views and long term dreams for the nation and her people. Campaigns should never be about the other person. Let the lawyers and inspector generals handle that side of the affair.

We learned what we already knew Tuesday night, September 29^th: the president of the United States is an error of history, a bully, a person without class or emotional balance. Such an individual ought not have public power in any manner whatsoever.

But then, many of us have said so consistently since the last election in November 2016.

Pity that 46% of the nation’s voters don’t understand that. But then, there is no understanding of their position anyway.

Even more’s the pity.

October 3, 2020