44th Edition
I’ve been traveling a bit lately and when I do I sometimes don’t sleep well. And when that happens, my writing can get a little weird. My apologies if you find this edition so.
This thought keeps rattling around my frazzled brain – Are we really going to have a presidential election with the same two candidates as the previous one? I know it might sound a bit awkward, but it seems we are having a collective hissy fit to see which side can be the stupidest. I propose we all select a write-in candidate instead, producing an election result of one vote for each man. I am one hundred percent sure Trump, a narcissist on steroids, will vote for himself, and I’m equally confident Biden will do the same, even if one of his minions has to remind him.
Which write-in candidates might we all consider? Here are a few ideas…
I would look for a candidate that is brave and loyal, two admirable qualities we should insist upon as we contemplate choosing the next leader of the free world. So, for me, in my weakened mental state, the name Lassie comes to the forefront. Boy, I sure miss that show.
Or we could look for an inspirational leader, who produced championship teams consistently, within the rules of the game. Lots of worthy candidates here, but I’ll go with John Wooden with Vincent Lombardi as VP.
Perhaps we might make our selection based on intelligence. If so, how could we not write in Albert Einstein?
Still, we shouldn’t forget integrity and honor. Fortunately, multiple candidates would make this list. How about Charles Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie? Boy, I sure miss that show.
I’ve always felt that the president should have military as well as business experience. For the former, we might dig through the old boxes in the attic and see if we can find our “I Like Ike” button. For the latter, it would be hard to keep Cornelius Vanderbilt off the list.
This is all pretty silly, isn’t it? I mean talking about TV shows and people from history, as we contemplate the upcoming presidential election. Being silly is a useful defense mechanism when logic and reason have been abandoned, pushed aside by some strange force of madness. If we don’t overcome this force and stubbornly cling to our collective political insanity, I imagine the writers of history, at least the kind ones, are going to refer to this current period, as America’s time of silliness.
It will end someday. Whether it ends peacefully or cataclysmically remains to be seen, but it will definitely end, someday.
Until then, what is a person of logic and reason to do, one who holds in high esteem the character traits of integrity, honor, intelligence, and wisdom? I haven’t the slightest idea. Perhaps, if each of us tries our best to live lives in such a manner, our silliness will fade, and a new era will begin. Then the leaders we so desperately need might follow those trends as politicians tend to do. My hope is that leaders will emerge, not as celebrities but as people of genuine virtue, pillars of communities whose character has been forged by living honorably, especially when others do not, and whose will is forever guided by our eternal father. Within this extraordinary person will be the overriding thought… service before self.
Nothing silly about that, is there?
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Michael Kayes
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