What is going to be the key to the path we take is the quality of the leadership we elect in this country. – Leon Panetta, former United States Secretary of Defense
In the good old days, our political battles were mostly about policy. Taxes, the social safety net, the military. Basic, but important, stuff.
It was against that backdrop that we went to the polls and made our decision about who would get our vote. You wanted your side to win, but you knew that the opposition may be wrong, but it wasn’t insane. You were sure they didn’t present an existential threat to our democracy and rule of law.
My how times have changed.
Today, anyone who casts his or her ballot without understanding we are so far past that way of thinking is doing a disservice to all of us. They’re failing in their duty as citizens to know, at least in a cursory way, what the hell is going on in their country.
Musings of a Nobody 