For Those Who Demand They Be Courted For Their Vote

[thucythucy]

30. This isn't a restaurant with a menu.

We're talking about the survival of what's left of our democracy.

And you DO have a choice. You can choose between a man who has dedicated his life to public service, is empathetic to those in need and those who suffer (in part because his own life has seen great suffering), a person of high intelligence who knows how to pull together teams of competent people to work through problems, who respects science and has a grasp of objective reality, and who takes seriously his oath to uphold democratic principles and to defend the Constitution;

or

You can vote for a reptilian grifter who doesn't give a shit about you, me or anyone else on this planet who isn't named Trump or won't fill his pockets with dirty money and his empty head with praise, a man who appoints absolute non-entities to the most important posts in government, thereby compromising our security and our health, a racist, misogynist demagogue who would just as soon wipe his ass on the Constitution as pay even lip service to its guarantees of rights and due process; a man who puts children in cages, dispenses lethal "medical" advice, who has and will continue to gut environmental protections, a man who only admires authoritarians and sociopaths and who is himself a textbook example of a narcissist willing to allow tens or maybe hundreds of thousands of your countrymen and women to die because he won't take advice and can't be bothered to exert himself to learn the basic rudiments required for the job.

Sedaris of course set it better and more succinctly. But THAT is perhaps the starkest, most glaringly obvious choice we have ever had to make in our national politics, certainly in my lifetime and possibly yours as well.

It isn't necessary for you to be "excited." It is only necessary that you care for your fellow human beings who will have to live with the consequences of this next election.