Just When You Thought the 2020 Political Campaign Couldn’t Get Worse

The passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sad.  Obviously, I didn’t know her, but people who did have spoken so highly of her.  It is impressive.

While I hope it is not inappropriate to say, while Justice Ginsburg’s passing is sad, her passing right now is horrendous.  Could anything have happened that would have made the 2020 political campaign worse? 

But the thing to realize is that everybody is being hypocritical, and nobody, at least not enough people, would stand on principle as opposed to political advantage if the positions were reversed.  While neither side will admit it, they would say and do the opposite of they are saying and doing now if things were vice-versa.

I am sure true-believers on each side think that they being principled and that if the positions were reversed, they would still do what they are doing now.  I have news for them: they wouldn’t.  If they were in the position the other side is in, they would be doing and saying what the other side is doing and saying. 

Which means, at least for this part of the campaign, you don’t have to pay attention to what anybody is saying.  Because it’s just blah-blah-blah talking (or, more accurately, yelling) to blah-blah-blah.