A Regrettable Debate

I finally rose up off of my writing rear-end and decided that today is the day that I would continue blogging. After all, with the scheduled debate of the century or, as the television media would have us believe, the most significant political event since Brutus stuck the shiv into the back of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate, today is a day worth noting.  The two notable aspects of this ritualistic, media-mandated, poll-driven, piece of political malpractice are that neither candidate, when considering the oppositional attitudes of their acolytes, are physically armed. The other is that both candidates adequately represent the culmination of political choices available when a society’s moral compass has gone askew.

I, for one, am not so overly aghast at the non-conservative bona fides of Donald Trump.  I also voted for Romney. And I also voted for McCain, the oft-commended war hero who crosses the political aisle so frequently that he forgets where his seat is located.  Nor do I exhibit too much squeamishness when I consider the voters who support him, the great unwashed as penned by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, or the basket of deplorables as offered by Trump’s adversary, Hillary Clinton. After all, we unwashed deplorables have our standards, too. At this point I would kindly suggest reading a piece by Victor Davis Hanson of National Review. I’m sure any political junkie remembers the gauntlet thrown down at the beginning of the primary season as the austere conservative publication declared that they could not support Trump, as his conservative instincts did not pass muster. Hanson, one of the magazines regular contributors points out the futility of this type of attitude. After all, this is politics we’re talking about. The article is here.

As for Hillary Clinton, she is a known quantity. There is no liberal cause that she will not advocate, no lie she will not tell, and no one she would not throw under a bus to achieve the Presidency of the United States. Not only has she not only abetted a sexual predator as a husband, she knowingly attacked the women who crossed his path. She sells influence for money and steps over the dead bodies of those who did her bidding. She has held high positions and accomplished nothing other than filling the family coffers under the guise of a humanitarian foundation. Hillary Clinton and public service should not be written or mentioned in the same sentence.

Tonight, these two bastions of the democratic process will verbally battle it out on public television. Put the kids to bed early. Tune in the NFL. Dig for worms in the back yard or pick up the dog droppings in the park. The moral decay of a nation has come down to a bragging buffoon and a person who stands for absolutely nothing. To make matters worse, it is our entire fault. God has turned this nation over to its sinful ways. We have a choice between a man who states he has never asked God for forgiveness and a woman who states that we need to change the religious views of Christians to support abortion (here). How can we ask God to bless the United States when we allow these two people to be our only choices?