if we’re going to have american politics, let’s at least make them about principles and differing visions for the future as opposed to hate filled attacks and ad hominem. this is how you get divided societies that cannot be pulled back together. you cannot run on “my opponent is the devil” and then seek to “unify and heal wounds” if you win. trump too would do well to remember this.as you all know, i’m no great fan of either candidate or of the increasingly imperial nature of the US presidency, but at least we can aim for being civilized. perhaps this is a watershed moment where we can all just take the heat down a little. there is a country attached to this partisan fracas and we all need to live in it.
