Election Day, 2024

by Jack Le Moine

Here are some thoughts on today’s election.  This was written some days since.

Today’s election featured a choice between the two worst candidates for president in American history. There were worse individual candidates in times past but for those elections the voters had a choice for some half-ways decent candidate from the other party. Today’s election featured a pair a very bad candidates.

From the Republicans, Donald Trump was bad primarily because of his actions on January 6th, 2001. Additionally, there was his womanizing which were just gross.

From the Democrats, Kamala Harris was bad because run of her indifference to major issues such as illegal immigration, crime, Left wing Indoctrination in the schools, and the federal government’s debt. For the first half of her campaign she gave no interviews to anybody whatsoever. Then when she finally did give interviews answers were evasive.

Apart from the individual candidates bad leadership during the campaign the Democratic Party had general problems.

The Democrats had extreme views on such issues as Casa parenthesis the evils of the ruling Hamas party), LGBTQ+ issues especially transgender matters drama defunding the police, and general problems with political correctness. This last 1 featured their insistence on using individual pronouns, microaggressions, trigger warnings, and cultural appropriation. The general problem of cancel culture emerged from the left.

Then there are the extreme behaviors that emerged from the left: the prolonged life riots against the police in the 2020 presidential election and the Gaza riots in the 2024 election. The Democrats did not forcefully oppose either of those riots.

Trump supporters it should be noted also engaged in bad behaviors especially death threats to his opponents in both the republican and the democratic parties.

Donald Trump won the election, the Republicans took over the US Senate and maintained a very slim majority in the US House of Representatives. It remains to be seen if Donald Trump will govern responsibly or impulsively.