We’re approaching the end of the strangest election season of my lifetime, and I’ve been around a long time. The majority of Americans would never pick either of the presidential candidates. One of which they never even had a chance to express themselves. One bad debate and the powers in the Democratic Party dumped a sitting president and appointed a new candidate. Why spend all that money and time on primaries, when you can just anoint someone who never won a single primary vote?

The other candidate won the nomination because the Democrats kept him in the limelight with constant lawfare. The cases were so bad they made Trump an object of Republisn sympathy, while preventing others having any space. As I have pointed out, the Democrats picked their opposition.

Instead of a thorough discussion of all our pressing problems, we get superficial jabs about the border, the economy, and abortion. Wars abroad continue to expand, a budgetary meltdown gets closer, and our kids fall further behind without any plans offered by the candidates.

What we have is a juvenile name-calling contest. You’re Hitler, garbage, stupid, weird, fascist, garbage, war monger, and so on. You give your kids at least a timeout for such behavior, but this is what we get from people competing for the nation’s top job.

In my series on the “New Party,” I pointed out how our elections were descending into contests between extreme candidates masquerading as centrists. You win primaries with the extremists’ support because they are true believers, and turn out for the party primaries, but win general elections in the middle.

What we have now is a contest between a new type of religion and a personality cult. Social justice married to saving Mother Earth is the mantra of the Democratic Party shakers. Underlying the actions of the present administration, it formed Kamala Harris’s 2019 platform.

Donald Trump is the only one capable of standing up to an elite establishment that detests us. With people seeing themselves as superior, controlling the system, and dictating culture looking down on us, we need Trump. If you object to the elites, you’re just spouting misinformation. He’s the only one who gets us. He will protect us.

Multiple pressing problems call for precise factual analysis by someone qualified to solve them. We can count on Harris being the Progressive she’s always been by continuing the policies of the present progressive administration which she is a prominent member.

Trump is a narcissist, and that won’t change. Rather than looking at things rationally and dispassionately, filtering everything through lens of self is his Modus Operandi. At least, he’s limited to one term.

Of course, the hope is the next election will feature candidates more interested in confronting and solving problems instead of calling names. My fear, however, is a charismatic person will arise to combine with the new social justice, Mother Earth religion echoing the spreading of other major religions. Instead of the broad-based democracy and markets responsible for the advances we enjoy today, we give way to elite zealots directing us with religious fervor. Things could get worse, not better in the future.

Right now, all we can do is see this election turns out, but we have to start thinking about what comes next. With this election cake baked, we must contemplate how to do better.

I trust a longer post is in the offing.