Debate preview: The worst of us right in front of us (Steve Deace)

Source: Conservative Review | September 26, 2016 | Steve Deace

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We failed to do the work required to achieve a healthy state of being. We ignored the fundamentals. We fell in love with fad diets and gimmicky snake oil.

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And now we must stare our errors, our hubris, and our blasphemy in the face. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most pathetic of them all? Wait, don’t answer that. For I hate my own reflection.

The Republicans followed up President Obama’s despotic drift into full-fledged authoritarianism by shunning faith and reason in exchange for an authoritarian of their own. Rather than a conservative champion, we demanded “give us a king so we can be like everyone else.”

Wish sadly granted.

Then there’s the Democrats, who converted the ‘hope and change’ of eight years ago into the most unstable civic and racial relations in decades. Progressivism may have always been unhinged, but now it was completely unleashed. 

That meant the next Democrat candidate for president either needed to be as radical as the mob that was marking its territory in every corner of the culture or be the most shameless and truth-averse politician that could possibly be imagined, ready and willing to say and do anything – and I mean anything – to finally grasp the ring of power for herself.

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Watching these two scoundrels duel with one another has no chance of being edifying or inspiring. Instead, it will be as close a thing as there is to watching the soul of a country page Jack Kevorkian. 

Yet, in our prodigal state we don’t lament the pigs have it better than us. Oh, no, we’re completely at peace with the gruel that will be survived up tonight. In fact, we’re already planning on seconds. We can’t get enough of ourselves, which is why tonight’s descent into the mouth of madness will probably include record-high viewership.

However, as much as we false love ourselves, we really loathe ourselves more. That’s why we chose such tarnished symbols to represent us. We see through a mirror darkly, but then once the fog clears we despise what we see. Which explains why if we ran a “who won the debate” poll here at CR, that included the option to choose “dear God what have we done,” I’m confident it would win.

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Politics can’t save us, and never really could. The moment we started believing in the power of such an idol, we took our eyes off the prize of the faith of our forefathers. Settling, eventually, on the very embarrassing debate we are about to watch between two ne’er-do-wells so damaged, they can’t help but expose their disqualifying weaknesses to the camera and the world.

This is why we will watch. Not because we care, but because we don’t. We don’t care who wins, we just want to watch the world burn.

The same reason we keep up with the Kardashians, care about whether Bruce Jenner is sitting or standing to pee, and know more about Brangelina than we do about governing ourselves.

Because 2016 isn’t the election we need, but it’s the election we deserve.

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