They both did their terrible best to make us lose hope in our species of democracy.
The genius and stupidity of man is a sight to behold. We’ve conquered our environment to create massive interconnected steel and concrete landscapes. Just a few years ago, our best minds created the Parker Solar Probe, which was able to reach the surface of the sun, not only without disintegrating, but designed to exploit the gravity of Venus to make additional trips.
We’ve also created a system where the election for the highest office in the most powerful and influential country ever comes down to, on the one hand, an old man that should be on a rocking chair somewhere and a complete moron on the other. Donald Trump and Joe Biden faced off on Thursday in a presidential debate that embarrassed not only America but humanity in general.
“We had it. We had H2O.” These were the words uttered by Trump in his response to a question about what he would do to address climate change. Without context, this makes no sense. With context, it somehow manages to make even less sense. The context is that Trump spent the entire debate engaging in his favorite pastime: trying to scare people.
Trump didn’t mean to suggest that we don’t have water anymore. But he was so single-mindedly focused on trying to frighten people about the possibility of a second term for Biden that he inadvertently suggested that we’re out of water. His predominant instinct is to sow as much hysteria and panic as possible about as many things as possible.
