Politics

Winning is everything.

In sports, we have scores. In business, we have sums of money. Sure, in politics we have winners after elections but when it comes to politics, the waters get very muddied.

At the conclusion of World War II, we dropped two bombs on Japan. “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki leaving carnage in their wake.

Harry Truman summed up the use of those weapons by saying, “We made a $2 billion scientific gamble…and we won!”

We won? According to that statement the metric for winning was the assassination of over 250,000 humans. According to that statement the murder of 250,000 civilians was what it took to “win”. 65,000 civilians died instantly when the bomb hit Hiroshima.

We won, though. Right?

Election season is confused with politics far too often.

Election season is entertainment at its finest. Two people will do anything to win our praise and more importantly, our votes. Election season gives us plenty of quality memes and quotes to share on Facebook for the hundreds of people we are friends with. You know, the people who think and act just like us?

When someone has to win it always means someone has to lose.

My issue right now is, I don’t see how any of us win. Just like World War II, the cost of winning is going to be a price no one will openly admit to wanting to pay. Somehow the system has spiraled to a place where we are forced to choose between the lesser of two evils.

This may not be the worst set of candidates we have but is surely the strangest choice set forth by both parties. If Romney ran again, this would be over. If Biden ran, he would most likely destroy Trump.

Trump may be one of the most vile people to ever run for office and somehow he is still garnering votes and support. This not only speaks to us as a nation but also to the viability of Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate.

Maybe this will seem off, but to me, this is like living in some bizarro universe where the Dallas Cowboys will face the New York Yankees in a strange sportsball championship to decide everything. Both teams have huge fan bases and nobody understands why. Both teams are often associated with evil and when push comes to shove, our second favorite team is usually whoever is playing on of those clubs.

I don’t want to root for my second favorite team when it comes to the future of my country.

I don’t want a metric of winning that comes at such a high price.

Sadly, I also have no idea how to fix it.