What
an election. Passions continue to roil out of all proportion to the
difference either of the two nominated candidates would attempt to
make in our lives.
On
the Democratic side, we have the polished, corporate-approved
candidate Hillary Clinton, who is sure not to upset the apple cart.
Granted, her campaign swung left, but only because Bernie Sanders was
nipping at her heels.
However
bitter and cynical my posts make me appear, there is absolutely no
way I could ever vote for her opponent and continue to sleep at
night. Hillary's staff is likely aware of this, which is reason to
wonder how far left she will continue to lean freed of Sanders' influence.
On
the Republican side, we have Donald Trump, the reality TV star and
billionaire real estate developer. Donald is in love with two things:
power and Donald Trump.
His
calculations led him to the Republican party, where he has proven all
that is required to be that party's nominee is to be the most
obnoxious drunk in the bar. Pushing white America's buttons is a
time-tested strategy that a sizeable segment of the population will
fall for over and over again.
With
a platform as devoid of ideas as reality TV is of Proust, his
campaign is an agonizing exercise whose sole success is peeling the
scabs from America's wounds. I have never been darker nor more
cynical than when I say Donald Trump would be the perfect President
for twenty-first century America.
In
a full-body embrace of the neutral-to-nuclear dynamic, we are
collectively shrugging our shoulders at these two when we aren't
slinging the verbal equivalent of rotten produce at them. No
presidential election has ever featured two more widely-despised (or
apathy-inducing) candidates.
Which
is why the following was such a breath of fresh air. It is the
obituary of a Virginia woman who passed in the middle of last month.
Enjoy.
Faced
with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary
Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into
the eternal love of God on Sunday, May 15, 2016 at the age of 68.
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