LESS DISSING WOULD HAVE HELPED THIS ELECTION MEDICINE GO DOWN 
(…epithets, insults, and invective did not serious debates about issues make…)

No one we’ve talked with about this coming election next week looks forward to it. This presidential election cycle has been one of the least engaging or worthwhile ones we’ve ever experienced.

There’s nothing particularly “Presidential” about either candidate being offered by both of these political parties of ours. While Secretary Clinton has presented herself with a bit more couth than Mr. Trump, whose rock’em- sock-em demagoguery, well laced with Hitler-style rants, have stirred up some folks into a knee-jerk reaction frenzy…none of which has given us, the tax-paying voters of this country, any kind of inspirational motivation to vote, and only grudgingly facing up to it because it is our basic civic duty to do so. As it stands… much less of that kind of mutual “dissing” would have helped this election medicine go down.

It’s quite clear that the reason we have such a dismal election prospect is because we have collectively become so disillusioned with the way we are, with the way the delicately balanced system of governance our founders set up for us has become so…unbalanced… we’re all prepared to take a flying leap into the unknown for a walk on the wild side. That disillusionment, that discontent, is goading us away from any kind of considered and reasoned efforts to solve our problems…stampeding ourselves instead to go for anything, or anyone, promising a quick fix for our malaise.

Thus, whether we realize it or not, our country is on the brink of losing its traditional political stability and societal equity, the kind of stability and equity which has been our hallmark as a nation, and why so many others from the rest of the world keep trying to come here.

Meanwhile, as we still wonder what we’ll do when we get to the polling place next Tuesday, the only though that comes to mind is to speculate about what would happen if neither of these two candidates get the necessary Electoral college plurality to become President… because enough of us unhappy voters opted for a third party candidate instead?

That might not make things better…but it surely couldn’t make things worse.

CENTURION