Politics is dirty. Divisive. Mud Wrestling. While i maintain that in RECENT history this is as nasty as it's been (tribal as I predicted loudly a decade+ ago)...i am not naive to think it was ever such a classy wonderful world - politics, that is.

But from the Kirk shooting, to most every tragedy or violence before that......President Trump uses it to be clssless, and NOT to help heal or calm ---but ti actually enflame the situation. From Covid to Kirk and most things in between. There's been exceptions - but those are few and muted.

So i've had Presidents I loved, and those I disliked (never close to hated).

BUT i gotta say, at least in my lifetime, the men were DECENT. And Trump makes me appreciate that.

Carter, Reagan, Pappa Bush, Clinton, W, Obama, Biden ---- the basic decency that lacks in the Oval today----those men most certainly had.

And sure they all had degrees of ruthlessness and fuckery about them - you dont get there by being too clean (maybe carter exception) but in public, after tragedy or crisis....they understood their office and they understood that their words need to calm and heal --- not divide and pour gasoline.

But then again maybe this means democracy is working.

Trump *does* reflect the. culture - in many ways.

But hey, culture doesn't matter.

Look around at how much it doesn't matter.