100 Words Per Mile: No One Cares to Be Better

With a week to go, I reflected on the 2020 General Election.

October 27, 2020
7.04 miles
56:14

I’m not sure how I’ve avoided writing about the presidential election. Maybe it’s because this project is inherently internal, a treatise on me, so I’ve been less inclined to speak about the pressure crushing us all at once. At the time of this, we are one week away from the 2020 General Election. We are one week away from figuring out if our country is whole enough to reject Donald Trump and embrace the placid, palette cleanser that is Joe Biden.

I’m not interested in engaging the policy-by-policy differences between candidates, nor am I cynical enough to say, “Hey, both are bad so why does it matter?” This would be intellectually and philosophically lazy. I’m here to say that Donald Trump is the worst leader in the modern history of the United States, and I would have accepted eight years of Mitt Romney if it meant we never had to live through this monstrosity of an administration.