Have you ever seen a bad movie - I mean really bad - and then you see that an actor or actress you admire is in it? Has that happened, and then you become embarrassed for the individual for being in such a rotten picture? That's the feeling I had for the few minutes of the GOP debate I was able to stomach last night.
Whew. How far we have fallen as a country. If my boys acted like that when they were young I would have punished them. I tried to watch it, but I literally became embarrassed. Embarrassed for them on the stage, for the GOP, for our nation, and sorrowful for our children.
I fear it has been a long time coming. Probably when Richard Nixon appeared on Laugh In, the barrier between the stupid and the serious was forever shattered. If it was already getting there, after that it was a fast dash to Clinton playing his sax and joking about pot smoking on Arsenio. And from there the teenage level snark of Obama or the locker room adolescent behavior of 2016.
But this is the age we live in now. These are the leaders, who only look good when juxtaposed to the experts who will deride them. I hate it for our kids. As my son quipped after the disastrous police response to the Uvalde school shooting: Great nations produce great men. End statement.
From a saner age:
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