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Realizing you probably won’t answer me, what are your opinions on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton?
They both lie.
Now, there was a time when such an accusation would have been considered mean-spirited. But the media has done a thorough job of convincing us that lying is inevitable. Once we decide it is inevitable, lying gains a certain amount of acceptability.
And because it’s acceptable, no one is particularly shocked anymore that it has ceased to be a vice and instead is considered to just be part of human nature.
Of course, the hypocrisy of such a trend is that none of us want to personally be lied to, and if we are lied to, we become very indignant.
But the reason I began this answer with the statement “both candidates lie” is that once we have grown to accept lying as being protocol, it opens the door to deception. Deception is when lies are manufactured to improve the status of an individual or to attack the opponent. And of course, these do not need to be true, but even worse, they don’t even need to be on point–just malicious.
So Donald says he wants to make America great again. Huge. So great that we’ll get tired of being great. He has no idea how he’s going to achieve this or what obstacles might come forth to block progress.
Hillary claims that she “campaigns in poetry but will govern in prose.” In other words, we’re not exactly sure what we’re going to get, because what she’s telling us will needfully change due to the circumstances of the events.
So my opinion of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is that they’ve both decided to find shade under the media’s coverage of acceptable lying.
So what should you do?
Find something true. Yes, acquire a North Star to your deliberations.
As far as I’m concerned, there are four things that are good about human beings:
1. We learn.
2. We repent.
3. We are generous.
4. We’re happy.
Feel free to disagree, but from my standards, these are the endearing qualities of our species.
I guess in 2016, the best you can do is find which candidate more closely embodies these delightful traits.
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