Election shows we’re racing to the bottom

RE: FEAR AND LOATHING: THE 2018 ELECTION (JUNE 6)

Mr. Turkstra makes sense as per usual, but something is missing. While the reasons for negative attitudes toward Wynne are dubious, my inexpert opinion is that a more pernicious trend is at work, and that is a perfect storm of self-indulgence arising from wealth, hyperbolic levels of narcissism, and abandonment of truth.

Not all of this is new. Just look at the history of racial conflict, mistreatment of Aboriginals and abject failure toward the poor as examples of how miserable attitudes can be. But now we have a dolt in the White House leading by his own repugnant behaviour which has released a flood of nastiness.

There was a time I think that more attention was paid to right versus wrong, and while generally not convenient, the answers were inescapable. That changed to the only things being wrong are the ones you catch me at, and at present we have arrived at a point where anybody and everybody is wrong if they dare to suggest I might be.

Kind of a negative assessment of our species I know, but I cannot help but believe that our race toward mediocrity has devolved into a race to the bottom.

Emil Andrew Sekerak, Hamilton