This election is NOT about someone’s age. The two leading candidates are roughly the same age, so set that aside, AGE IS NOT THE ISSUE.
Only the media, political consultants, and pundits want us to focus on their age. Forget it…their age means nothing. That is a diversion, a trick, and an irrelevant shiny object. Pay no attention to it.
Here is what the 2024 election is REALLY about:
It is about whether should we be electing a convicted and confessed sex abuser (rapist) to the highest office in the land…
It is about electing a con man and fraudulent businessman to the highest office in the world and giving him the biggest budget a single human being can control…
It is about electing a person with no regard for the national secrets of the U.S. government who is willing to allow those secrets to be shared with anyone willing to visit his bathroom in Mar-A-Lago…
It is about allowing a man who has paid a porn star off to keep quiet about their affair to live in the “people’s house”…without supervision…
It is about allowing a man with no policy, agenda, or vision for the country except his own self-aggrandizement to have the reigns of power…
It is about allowing a man who is invested in authoritarian rule so that he can be free to do whatever he wants to do, to be able to violate the restraints of the Constitution in the same way he violates women…
It is about allowing a man to betray our allies to the brutal authoritarian tendencies of Putin, who is raping Ukraine and would allow the same fate to befall our NATO partners…
It is about whether we will allow a man who was derelict in duty during the worst health disaster of our time and allowed hundreds of thousands to die needlessly while he tried to protect his reputation, to be able to do it again…
It is about allowing a man whose only metric for political appointment is loyalty to him to have the ability to gut the federal government and replace it with sycophants regardless of their professional capabilities…
It is about allowing a man who unconstitutionally reaped financial benefit from the office of the Presidency the first time, to do it again…
It is about whether we allow a man who tried to halt the peaceful transfer of power in 2020 to be able to undermine the legitimacy of another election…
It is about a man who sat unconcerned in the Oval Office dining room on January 6, 2021, watching the police being beaten and abused by his supporters on Capitol Hill and was derelict in duty to prevent it, to be able to do so again…
It is about a person who encouraged the attacking mob on January 6 to try and find Mike Pence, the nation’s Vice President, to do him harm because he put loyalty to the Constitution over loyalty to a man…
It is about allowing the office of the President to be stained, soiled, and brought so low once again as to make that office nothing more than an organized crime-like organization…
It is about electing a man to the highest office who views women’s healthcare and basic human rights as a political bargaining chip to win votes with the religious right…
It is about how a person running for high office views immigrants as subhuman coming from “shit-hole countries” who deserve no more respect than to have their families separated at the border and children caged…
It is about whether we are comfortable with a President who dines and cavorts with white supremacists and accepts their support…
It is about about whether a person who disdains the principles of democratic rule, fair elections, and Constitutional norms, should be leading the world’s “greatest democracy”…
It is about whether a person who believes it’s a good idea to create false electors during an electoral process should be trusted with our Constitutional order…
It is about a man who promotes lies about elections that cannot be substantiated by evidence or supported through legal appeal, should be trusted with power…
It is about a person who echoes the words, images, and ideas of one of history’s most evil leaders, Adolph Hitler by accusing immigrants of “poisoning the blood of the country…"
It is about whether we should elect a person who has 91 felony counts against him for crimes that would put him away for life if found guilty…
Do not listen to Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, or any other cable news channel. All you are going to hear is age, age, age…that is not the issue in this election.
This election is about another individual running for re-election. Here is what the election is REALLY about:
It is about electing a man who understands the meaning of “public service” and who has engaged in it and lived it for over 50 years...
It is about electing someone who knows how to work in a bipartisan manner to get things done and has done so many times…
It is about electing a person who respects and honors our democratic system and plays within the rules of that system…
It is about a person who believes that the economy grows best when it finds ways to support wages, jobs, and benefits to the working classes…
It is about working to strengthen the peaceful world order and American allies, and not undermine them…
It is about sustaining carbon-free energy sources to combat climate change which is already wrecking havoc on all parts of the world…
It is about fighting for women’s health care rights, bodily autonomy, and respecting women’s rights in general…
It is about having a government with appointees who are qualified for the positions they fill and not based on political cronyism…
It is about having a President that is not an indicted felon, a convicted rapist, and a confirmed business fraud…
It is about having a President who commands respect and admiration across all levels of foreign countries, both allies and competitors…
It is about having policies that focus on the needs of the “least of these” and not on lining the pockets of the wealthy few…
It is about having a President who knows and understands how the Constitution works and is true to its intent…
It is about having a person in office who works for the good of the people and the country above his party, and self-interest…
It is about having a person in the office who has suffered the pain and loss of family members who have struggled with disabilities and who can empathize with others who suffer…
It is about having someone in the White House, though not perfect, who is trying daily to do better and not blame others for their failings…
It is about having someone leading the country who believes we ought to make voting easier, not harder for all groups of people…
It is about having a President who is actually interested in solving the border problem and not just using it as an election prop…
It is about having a President who rejects and condemns white supremacy instead of flirting with it and embracing it…
It is about having a leader who understands that if you give massive tax breaks to the rich, the budget deficit grows larger…
It is about having a person in the White House who won’t lie or foment an insurrection to stay in power if they lose an election…
It is about having someone in office with years of government experience from which accumulated competence has grown over time into wisdom and effectiveness…
I think you can see what the choice is in this election. It isn’t about anyone’s age…it is way more important and weighty than that simplistic issue. Don’t be misled by the media… choose what is best for the country, and frankly, for the whole world.
Well said!!
Very true