Even as a 9-year-old, I was palpably aware of the constant possibility of nukes from the US and Russia destroying my family in the middle. It was just a fact that someday, any day, we could be vaporized before we even had time to become aware of it.
If that doesn’t get a kid to turn to philosophy, nothing will.
If Biden is elected and becomes President without incident - and we won’t truly know what will happen until it does, because we think like normal persons and therefore cannot adequately imagine what might come to life in Trump’s head - the US will have a chance to remake itself in very important ways. Their elections system. Their Supreme Court appointments for life. The unchecked power of mass destruction given to a single person in the full knowledge that humans are fallible and decisions made under stress are more subject to human error.
Maybe US citizens will realize that they had a really close call and make a better country.
But it’s not over yet. The fact that there is even a chance of Trump getting another four years (and who’s to say he will stop there) should make Americans think very hard about what they are willing to fight for.
Even as a 9-year-old, I was palpably aware of the constant possibility of nukes from the US and Russia destroying my family in the middle. It was just a fact that someday, any day, we could be vaporized before we even had time to become aware of it.
If that doesn’t get a kid to turn to philosophy, nothing will.
If Biden is elected and becomes President without incident - and we won’t truly know what will happen until it does, because we think like normal persons and therefore cannot adequately imagine what might come to life in Trump’s head - the US will have a chance to remake itself in very important ways. Their elections system. Their Supreme Court appointments for life. The unchecked power of mass destruction given to a single person in the full knowledge that humans are fallible and decisions made under stress are more subject to human error.
Maybe US citizens will realize that they had a really close call and make a better country.
But it’s not over yet. The fact that there is even a chance of Trump getting another four years (and who’s to say he will stop there) should make Americans think very hard about what they are willing to fight for.