Path to Perdition

With the Covid mess and pandemic fears as excuses, the 2020 election was run in somewhat peculiar ways. The outcome wasn’t to the Republican loser’s liking, and he cried “foul.” 

Now it begins to look like Democrats, having screwed up big, will lose big in 2022. They are already crying “foul,” blaming election manipulation and cheating.

All of this begins to have very much the feeling of third world politics, where losers never accept defeat. How many election cycles before we have tanks in the streets as the votes are counted? 

It feels like we have embarked on the trajectory followed by Argentina and Venezuela, among others? These once wealthy countries ended up with poverty, squalor, human rights abuses and thuggish politics.

I suggest we do not follow their well-worn “path to perdition.”