Which Way America?

Another election referendum on the country’s future looms

Journalist Edgar Ansel Mowrer — Public Domain — Mowrer covered the rise of Adolph Hitler in the 1930s in Germany. He was eventually kicked out of Germany. He won a Pulitzer Prize.

The majority of people don’t want Joe Biden for a second term or Donald Trump for a return term. But, they are likely to get millions of votes anyway. What are we to do? How did we get such a system?

Well, we don’t elect the President by popular vote so really, this is not a surprise. The electoral college, a relic of American racism, elects the President. We probably should be in the streets every day all day until they change it. If only.

On the other hand, collectively, American voters are complacent. Relaxed. Concerned with paying bills, keeping their children safe at schools, receiving adequate medical care, but eating unhealthy food all day every day. Is the Starbucks open? Pilates, Yoga, Fan Duel, there are a lot of distractions and escapes in America.

Yet, one of these fading geezers will win unless they both die or something similar happens. Biden will be in office and will be that steady hand of experience and conservative imperial foreign policy which millions of Americans detest. He will sprinkle a few dollars of domestic policy goodies around to keep the hard core liberals and their institutions…