A lot of people in the U.S. would probably disagree with the woman’s assessment of the debates, as we can tell by the popularity of Donald Trump and some others. But a lot of other people would probably agree with this statement by Robert E. Lee during the 1860 presidential campaign:
Politicians are more or less so warped by party feeling, by selfishness, by prejudices, that their minds are not truly balanced. They are the most difficult to cure of all insane people.
What do you think?
January 20, 2016
love the cartoon….
I like it too. And the quote. 🙂
When I feel as if our entire country seems to have gone mad–other than a select few of us (smile)–I’m sometimes comforted by reading about other contentious election cycles in our history, such as the 1876 cycle when Rutherford B. Hayes and friends called Democrat Samuel J. Tilden a briber, a thief and a drunken syphilitic (Smithsonian). The race included accusations of Republican voter fraud, white supremacists suppressing black votes, and a three-month period after the voting before the winner (probably not the actual winner, according to many) was finally named. We survived that, and others. Hopefully, we’ll survive this cycle, too, although sometimes it certainly seems as if we won’t.
The political nastiness in the U.S. started at the beginning, once Washington declined to run and presidential elections were contested. The elections of 1796 and 1800 were bitterly fought.
Since I am allergic to TV perse, the nuts do not add to my allergy!
I don’t watch TV either, but I did enjoy reading about the latest Republican debates.
The biggest nut of all – Sarah Palin
I left you a link on Fear Sells about what she’s blaming Obama for now.
Now I have avoided seeing videos of her. 🙂