Republican friends, like you, I’m conservative. My first presidential vote was for Barry Goldwater. Like you, I love America — our land, our Constitution, our people of all stripes, our centuries of getting better at refining democracy and moving toward equality for all. The way that murderous jerks like Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin fear us. Our skill and genius at getting things done. Our rule of law and everything else that enables our free people to invent, start businesses, work hard and prosper.
In the debate, President Joe Biden was exhausted from recent European diplomacy (honoring fallen soldiers from D-Day, summit meetings with national leaders, etc.). He spoke truth from memory and experience. (To the question “How would you save Social Security?” he said what everyone knows to be true: “require wealthy people to participate in the program.”) To the same question, presidential wannabe Trump spewed an angry stream of lies, a disparaging tirade about immigrants — stop them, deport them, etc. (His same “answer” to questions on most other topics, actually.)
My next presidential vote will be for Joe Biden. Please join me. Trump’s lies are dividing America. Defeat him now, then steer the Republican Party back to greatness later.
