by Kevin Kelton

While we watch the slow, painful destruction of our political system, we should take a moment to reflect that we did this to ourselves. Every one of us. We bought into the politics of hate. We bought into the politics of cults. We devoured negative ads and delighted in dirty, underhanded campaigns. (This goes for the liberals as well.) We believed the worst in our candidates and pilloried them for being human. We gave ratings to hate. We rewarded crassness and punished civility.

We relished the character stoning of dedicated career politicians and even threw rocks ourselves on social media. Calling people crooks and c*nts, too old or too rich or too low energy, too black or not black enough… pretending that one candidate was virtuous while the other was criminal. 

It was a modern day Salem witch trial. Mass hysteria and all.