By Michael P. Riccards

As we approach the last month of the presidential race, we are no more knowledgeable than when we began.

Chasing the tail of demagoguery, they both provide anti-tax plans for tips and some incentives for first home buyers. Neither one is aware that we are in debt and continuing to add to that number as fast as we can.

No one is dealing with the intensive problems of Social Security and Medicare, and neither one accepts the notion of a universal health plan. Trump promises a better Obama care plan after trying in his first term to end that salutary program. Harris skirts around the whole universal health care notion. 

They promise to give more tax cuts to either the middle class or the very rich, depending with whom they are talking, Neither has any economic plan for dealing with growth in an increasingly technical world and non-human intelligence. 

In agricultural areas, they promise to help the family farmer while the farmers are  themselves abandoning the farms for steady regular jobs in nearby cities. Capitalist agriculture can provide for our needs as well as if not better than the lone guy with a tractor and a  hoe.

We are told that we must be both the leaders of the Western world and that we must use tariffs to curtail China, Russia and non democratic economies from flooding our markets. But as I look at my shirts and my software, they all have Chinese Communist state  labels on them. 

In terms of the Biden foreign policy, the nation is told that we support the Israel government but not their aggressive attacks on Gaza and Lebanon. The problem with the Israeli strategy is that they cannot kill every anti-Semite in  the Middle East.  They can’t even win the traditional sympathy of liberal American academia.

It is obvious that Vice President Harris is not ready for the top job. She is pleasant and decent but terribly inexperienced. Trump is vicious, mean spirited and given to sedition. He has given us one term of disaster, nastiness, and sedition. 

Do we need these people for the job once honored by Washington, Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt? As we approach the election, the American people must once again choose and must once again wonder, “Who the hell is giving us these people in our time of peril?”

Michael P. Riccards, a former college president, is the author of 30 books, including “A Republic If You Can Keep it.”

Categories: Jandoli Institute, Michael Riccards, Politics