One observation or explanation of recent politics in America, or the world for that matter, is that no one ever wins by being too truthful.
Politicians obfuscate and lie because people want them to. Reality is a pill we humans refuse to take as needed. For instance, Kamala Harris won the vote of women by over 10 percent. What does that say about why men are failing in America? Men of all ethnicities shifted hard for Trump.
What does the election say about the consequences of the left’s insistence that their “religion” is the truth? On issues from immigration to trans rights they were off the rails but seemed to think that if anyone challenged their beliefs, they were either racists or bigots.
For anyone with reasonable objectivity, Trump and right wing pols are a much bigger danger than idiotic progressive do-gooders. But objectivity is not the world we live in. Maybe what we need in order to heal is a return to the understanding that we (a very broad term) are not basically good but we believe what we want and we are essentially hard core selfish beings who let anger and stupidity rule our actions as a matter of course.
Instead of pointing well deserved fingers, maybe a return to the basic Christian premise that we are essentially averse to truth and decency is the best solution to this crisis. I’m not optimistic any more, regardless of what MLK Jr. said about the arc of the moral universe.
Rick Walker
Snohomish
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