Campaign cycle

As this election campaign winds down, I realize that there are polar arguments going on. One candidate is telling us how his presidency will change America, and the other is saying that his opponent will do none of it. One is preparing to govern; the other is trying to assure that his opponent cannot govern. One has his eye on the next four years, and the other is laying groundwork for the next campaign in four years.

With election day, the cycle of the next campaign begins, and an attempt is made to make everything that happens relevant to the defeat of the incumbent, rather than the good of the country. What a way to run a country!

One might say that it has been this way for 200 years. I would say that sometimes it has. The bottom line should be, what is for the good of the country, our people, our world. Can we get to the bottom line?