America is sick. The nation is riddled with many self-inflicted wounds and ailments. We need to administer the hard but cleansing medicine of a landslide election.
As we know all too well from the onslaught of COVID-19 in 2020, the symptoms of a disease can be baffling. With COVID, some victims had painful symptoms while others had little more than an impending feeling that something wasn’t right. Was it just a bad cold or the flu? The symptomatology was so varied that it defied easy diagnosis. Thankfully for the world, a single test emerged that could prove with near-total confidence whether or not one had the dreaded virus.
The same idea may be applied to a body politic, particularly a constitutional republic such as ours. An everyday litmus test can be applied: How well does the nation function in accordance with its constitutional and common laws, which preserve the liberties and rights of its citizenry as a common body?
Be mindful, fellow patients. Hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens have already died.
If judged accordingly, our country is experiencing a hundred different symptoms that may appear baffling if they are considered individually.