Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

This election is becoming exhausting. The polls that are being run, always looking for the edge to be on your side. The ever present blurbs from Trump claiming how good he is and how bad everyone that is not on his team is. Our nation is in the worst shape it has ever been in, and so on because he is not running it. When did we become a one man show?
Democracy is in trouble because of this one man. Somehow he has convinced members of one political party that he is the savior of the nation. His real role is to destroy the nation for personal gain. He has assistance from some elected people that continue to spout crap about this and that and do little else that they were elected to do. They must be totally brain dead and those closest to them must fear for their lives if they point out that being an idiot will get you nowhere.
The need to pull back from the edge of disaster is the action we need to take today. The direction that the right is attempting to steer us will not be beneficial to the majority of the people, and probably not too good for the promoters either. All the issues from censuring what books to read to individual health matters are on the table for the righteous to tell us all how we must live. After all they are the holders of the keys to salvation and the order and we don’t what to offend these self appointed deities, now do we?.
The answer to that is quite bluntly, yes we do. No one gives them, no matter how rich or holy they feel they have no right to interfere in everyone else’s lives. The high and mighty like to believe they have been endowed with super knowledge that allows them to make decisions for the rest of us and that we are to humbly follow.
Another star on the pole of people that should butt out is the Pope. He is claiming that we have only two issues to consider to make our selection for President. His advice is to pick the lesser of the evil and go with that. His issues, abortion, and immigration, nothing else matters as this is the teachings of the church, and we know we cannot go against the teachings. What a bunch of bull shit, the issues go much further than his narrow view. We have a felon running for office. A man with no moral character. He is a fraud and a liar, as well as a thief and a rapist, just because he is against immigration is what makes him bad in the eyes of the church. The other candidate is female, strikes one for being in charge, and she is in favor of abortion, which goes against the church’s doctrine.
Although he did not mention the female portion in his comment it is well known that the Catholic Church does not promote women being leaders at any level. So what are we to do with the advice, ignore it as that man, as important as he thinks he is, is just another man with access to the media to voice his opinion.
If we are to base everything we do on the directions given by religious groups then we might as well go back to living in caves and herding sheep. Every moment of your life and every ounce of your energy is supposed to be directed to the glory of God, Allah or whomever has the title of deity. That is not a step forward, it leaps backwards into subservience and poverty as all your efforts will go to building more spectacular places of worship.
Let’s move forward in democracy and put our wellbeing and that of our neighbors ahead of secondary causes.