Old Arguments

The Newly Anointed One says:

"But let me say this — the reason I decided to run is because I think what we need right now is someone who can bring the country together, get past some of the old arguments, some of the old bickering, some of the old polarization."


How very inspiring. And so uplifting.

But wait!

What are those "old arguments" ???

Oh - silly stuff. Unimportant, trivial.

Like civil rights, ending the war in Viet Nam (and now Iraq!), ending the proliferation of nuclear nightmares, ending hunger and homelessness in America, cleaning up the environment.

Silly stuff, really. And nothing which the Newly Anointed One bothers to acknowledge.

That "bickering" has got to go.

Imagine! People actually argued about nuclear warheads. Tsk Tsk.

And really! the energy they spent arguing about civil rights. Such nasty people they were. And they are still around and still bickering!

Polarization? Oohh! Big Word.

"Polarization" is code word for 'and I want to separate out all the black folks to shame them into voting for me, and I want to dismiss Little Hillary as just a woman, and I want all those easily-led kids to support me and run roughshod over any of those do-do birds left over from the sixties, and I want to make sure that anyone who says anything at all about me is branded a Racist.'


The Newly Anointed One says: "I am not invested in the battles of the sixties"

Hmmm.

We have had an inexperienced guy in the White House for the past seven years. He wasn't invested in the "battles of the sixties" either.

Hillary Clinton was, and is, invested in those battles. And the next President of the United States must be a person who understands that the country must continue that bickering, fighting those fights, and winning them. The battles are not yet won.

But they will never be won by an arrogant, condescending novice who happily accepts the benefits provided by those who went before without ever having gotten involved himself.