Donald Trump is wrong for
not participating in the debate. The debates are not about him or whether he
likes a reporter or not, it’s about us, the electorate, to see and feel where
the candidates stand on the important issues facing our lives and living.
Fox News, a misnomer in
itself, claims they adhere to journalistic ethics so no candidate can choose
who gets to question them. Fox News, or better yet, Fox Opinion is no paragon
or upholder of anything journalism, let alone ethics, but I agree with their
decision in this case only.
I have been a long time
writer and critic of congress as a do nothing, snipe and snip, self-serving
body of mostly arrogant members. I’ve suggested it’s time to “throw them out” and
bring back statesmen and stateswomen; a common core of citizen legislators who
do their job and go home and not make serving the public a career.
The body politic
frustration with Washington has led us, not to the rise of statesmen-like
leaders, but to the rise of Trump and to the iconoclastic campaign of Bernie
Sanders. Trump is the buffoon in the political room and Sanders is the maverick;
the rest are either charter members of the status quo elite or are new-bees and
want to bees.
The responsibility for the
future lies with us. We must do our diligence and choose for the good of the
whole or we will end up with what we deserve. We are the creators of this
reality.
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