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The Election

It has been over a week since the election and I would like to express some of my thoughts. It was a hard fought election with some dirty campaign ads from both sides. Most of the vicious ads came from the so called super pacs. Some of them were entertaining but some of them were just outright lies. I will have to say that I thought that Biden ran a more upbeat campaign than Trump. Both candidates’ super pacs were very negative. The problem with Trump is he gave too much cannon fodder for organizations like the Lincoln Project. Another problem with Trump was that there were too many tweets and recordings that supported what organizations like the Lincoln Project stated. He really is not a very nice man but that does mean he couldn’t have been a good President. Biden is a very nice man but that does not mean he will be a good President. We need both the right and the left to walk a straight line. We have been pulled to the right for a while and may need to be pulled a little left to compensate but we need to get to the middle of the road so we can go straight.

One of the main problems that I had with the Trump presidency is the fact that he made our fellow Americans, namely the Democrats the enemy. I am sorry but my next door neighbor is not the enemy. They are just my next door neighbor with a different view. We need a two party system for country to survive. Do you know examples of one party system? How about the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The two party system has worked for over 200 years and I hope it works for another 200. The last four years has been a big eye opener for me but that probably should be a whole other blog.

I do think that Trump would have been reelected except for the virus. His lack of leadership and his dishonesty to the American people will probably define his presidency in history. Calling something a Democratic hoax when you knew how bad it was is just not acceptable to me and I do not understand how it can be to anyone. At a time when we needed real leadership he told us that it would be magically be gone by April when he knew different. I know this fall after Woodward’s book came out that he said those things because he didn’t want people to panic. I believe that that was another lie. What he didn’t want to do was hurt the strength of the economy which was the platform he was running on. His greatest economy of all time and it cost people’s lives. We have a right to know the truth all the time from our President. Lying to the American people even if is not under oath should not acceptable. I know he is that the first and he won’t be the last. But I will call out any politician who lies to the people and it causes deaths. He lied and people died and I wonder how so many people can find that acceptable.

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