The following assessment of last night's presidential debate was written by Zack Rouda (my son, age 32), and posted on his Facebook page. Since I couldn't have said it better myself, I present it for you here.
"Donald Trump is as American as apple pie. He really is just a classic American man. If you had to imagine the average American man, I think he would look and act a hell of a lot like Donald Trump.
Trump embodies “individuality,” which is, itself, a stupid concept. The notion that we should identify most strongly with our current body and our own ego is uniquely Western/American. Many other cultures value family, the health of the land and community over the individual ego, and individuals are understood to exist within a larger community. We exist in relationship with each other.
The fact that a grown adult doesn’t have the ability or interest to listen to anybody else, God or man, is not admirable. It’s not cool to be so self-confident, or self-absorbed, that you lack the interest or ability to listen to another single living human.
As for last night's debate: Why aren't people like this automatically disqualified? Why didn't somebody cut off Trump's mic? Sorry, you’re not following the rules. You’re not acting like a grownup. You’re a little baby who was abused by your bad parents. You need therapy. You’re fired!! Can somebody please say that to him, please? I’m begging for God to save us.
The thing that is most upsetting is how often we, each of us, act exactly like Donald Trump. He is a perfect mirror of the country. We roll our eyes at one another and snicker and smirk and say, “Yeah right!” and “Yeah sure!” and "Sure, yeah, whatever!” We say, “They started it.” We say, “I’m NOT listening to you! You’re a big stupid idiot clown orange old toxic garbage racist.” Doesn’t even matter if it’s Trump or Biden or Clinton or Bernie or whoever.
Look at how meek Chris Wallace, the moderator, seemed. Has nobody ever gotten mad at Trump? They’re all afraid of him. And we are each afraid of each other. We deserve Donald Trump for President. He represents the spirit of American individualism perfectly."
Yeah, I had a different take, Chris Wallace was glaringly bias, he soft balled Biden and basically gave Biden more time to call Trump a liar, clown and racist and had more time to say negative things about Trump and Trump was interrupted when trying to respond, although I'll admit that Trump is not a debater.
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