Election Lessons

Election Lessons

• If you are one of the people who think that anyone who disagrees is automatically in that half of the population that is morally inferior and/or uneducated, YOU are in that half.
• If you don’t believe the media are biased, just watch the grimaces on the newsreaders’ and commentators’ faces as they read the results of the vote counts. I thought David Muir on ABC was going to need EMTs.
• The state of Rhode Island—and I am not disparaging any office holder or party member—is weaker for not having a vibrant Republican party that is competitive in elections. (Things are changing, though, Trump took Kent County.)
• You need policies good for the electorate to win elections, not simply castigating the opponent as toxic and evil, even if the opponent is vile and obnoxious. Otherwise, you descend to that level instead of raising your own.
• There are no “one-issue” elections. Candidates have platforms and they should be diverse enough to encompass enough voters to win. Separating voters by “blocs” or ethnicity or gender these days is obviously ineffective.
• The celebrity endorsement means next-to-nothing. Shut up and sing, or act, or dance, or do whatever you do to entertain people, but don’t assume you’re any other kind of expert.
• The group of talking heads on the TV show “The View” is probably the most biased and least intellectual group of people ever paid to be in public. Of course, they may be off the air now, because I assume their heads exploded the other night.
• Viewership of primetime coverage for the presidential election across major networks and cable news channels falls to 42.3 million viewers, down 26% from 2020; lowest percentage of households follow TV coverage since 1960. Perhaps because the biased reporting and how some county voted in South Dakota just turns people off? (source: 1440)
• Despite the official mourning of the New York Times and people taking time off for their “mental health” because their candidate lost an election, it’s not the end of the world. It’s simply the continuation of a great democracy.