And this board is the perfect example. A sitting US senator is referred to as a “vile pig” with racist images and memes. Duly elected POTUS - past and present - are berated and name called with no respect for the person or the office. Politicians use to refer to the “gentle lady/man across the aisle” now they’re “corrupt Socialists who will ruin the country” or “money grubbing criminals just in it for themselves”."In the spirit of complete openness, part of me is also discouraged. The countless hours I have spent in the investigation of Russian election interference and the impeachment inquiry have rendered my soul weary. I will never understand how some of my colleagues, in many ways good people, could ignore or deny the President’s unrelenting attack on a free press, his vicious character assassination of anyone who disagreed with him, and his demonstrably very distant relationship with the truth.
"As has been observed, however, to some degree he is a symptom and not the cause or at least the only cause. The truth is that civic discourse began degrading before him. At times, it is as though there are no rules or boundaries. Success seems to be measured by how many Twitter followers one has which are largely gained by saying increasingly outrageous things, the more personal the better. There are simply too many hyperbolic adjectives and too few nouns. Civility is out. Compromise is out. All or nothing is in."
Elections don’t solve the problem just exacerbates it. The 52% winner declares a mandate to eliminate everything her/his predecessor did with their 4% “landslide”.
No solution from me today. Just wanted to vent. Thanks for reading. Comments (polite discourse please) welcome.