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Elections 2024 – – The numbing and dumbing down of America

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2024 American Elections have been very troublesome to watch. Robust intelligent dialogue based on a candidate’s record and policies have been absent.

I have received solicitations from political parties pitting one candidate against another. Each side is accusing the other of “destroying democracy” with a straight face. Even non-partisan public interest groups have become very partisan and shrill.

Candidates who try to focus on substance and solutions usually demand more effort through reading and analyzing. These are often drowned by the louder noises of partisan clamoring and quick superficial soundbites.

This election process has mainly become a war of social media prowess and madness. Instead of respecting the Public Intelligent and Democratic Processes, the goal seems to be how to circumvent the civil dialogue process.

The days of civil and intelligent debates with intelligent questions and answers have disappeared. Intead of allow the public to listen and analyze the intelligence and values of the candidate, the public is forced to staged narratives through 30-seconds videos, tic-toks, instagram and facebook reels. Hollywood stars, talk-show hosts, musicians and whatever there is out there jump into in the quarrelsome fray.

Even former politicians jump into shrill partisan mud-fights, displaying no statesmanship, if in fact there was any to begin with.

Substance, policies, ideas, solutions, through analytical robust discussions about how a candidate can provide the best way forward are absent.

It has become a social media war to stoke the anger and fear in the American population. “If you’re not for us, you’re against us!”

” And please donate. Donate now. Donate to save Democracy! “

I was curious to see how much money is involved in these elections. This seems like an awful lot — ” In the 2020 U.S. presidential race, candidates spent a total of roughly 3.16 trillion U.S. dollars, more than any other election. The total spending of presidential candidates is reflected in the number of major presidential candidates running. See here for more information on how many candidates have run in past U.S. elections.” 

Is this information correct? If it is, it’s a sad state of affairs! God Bless America.

Ketanji Brown Jackson: President Biden’s Nominee to The United States Supreme Court

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It’s unfortunate that Jackson will be forever tainted as Biden’s “first Black female” pick. What’s the next pick? The first Asian female? I submit that Ketanji Brown Jackson’s professional qualifications, achievements, and life experiences would have prevailed on the philosophy of ” Meritocracy” in our Democracy.

As protocol, the encumbent President of the United States gets to nominate someone of his choice. It was President Trump’s choice of Amy Coney Barrett before this. This time around it’s Ketanji Brown Jackson.

This is a short excerpt from The New York Times:

“There have been three main career paths to becoming a federal judge in recent decades: defending corporate clients, serving as a prosecutor or working in politics. 

She spent seven years as a corporate lawyer, in Boston and Washington, including a year at the same boutique firm where Barrett once worked and Kavanaugh spent a summer.

She spent two and a half years as a federal public defender in Washington, representing defendants who could not afford to hire a private lawyer. In that role, unlike many other legal jobs, she could not choose whom she did and did not represent.

More from The New York Times

Her parents worked as public-school teachers and administrators, and Jackson graduated from a public high school in the Miami area (the same one that Jeff Bezos attended). If she is confirmed, she would become only the third public high school graduate on the new court, along with Alito and Kagan. “Every other member of the court is a graduate of a Catholic high school,” The Times’s Linda Greenhouse has written. All the justices — as well as Jackson, a Harvard graduate — attended private colleges.“

I like the fact that she is from a public school. Any position in the public offices of the United States should be open to all who are qualified. Privilege and Pedigree should not be requisites in these opportunities.