It will be interesting in November to see how this all shakes out. Most days right now, all of the media I see from all sources, all the posts I read on this board and reddit, and my daily interactions (sometimes) with people make me feel like I am right in the middle of two groups of people I have very little in common with. I sometimes think to myself, "Am I the only person here who isn't crazy?"
Our country sorely lacks political, cultural, and religious leaders who are voices of reason and kindness. Our political and cultural leaders do everything they can to divide Americans and pit them against each other. Our religious leaders are sidelined partly by the increasingly secular country we live in (no comment, just reality).
Our country needs healing and it needs unity. All of my grandparents lived through the Great Depression and WWII, living on food and other commodity rations as their farms went under. We cannot seem to equal them in terms of their values and ideals for a number of reasons that are too long to go into now. Regardless though, if such a person could even exist today without being destroyed by past mistakes, I wish that there were loud and dominant voices in our country from any side of the aisle that sought a positive, unifying path forward.