TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

There have been many important dates that have changed life for millions and set history on a new course. Election day 2020 in the USA will be one of those days.

The country has been dragged through the mud for four years by media saturation centered on one man and his warped view of our future.

History will show that year 2020 was a turning point for the United States and by extension much of the free world.

The US electorate showed us in 2016 that they were ready for a change, ready to step away from governance as usual and elect a leader who would form a government for the people, not for the politicians, i.e. "drain the swamp".

The idea was right but as is so often the case, the execution was a shit-show.

So here we are, convinced we made a mistake and struggling with our conscience as we realize governance in a Democracy is, by definition, messy and inefficient but as history tells us infinitely more permanent.

The monarchists in Europe learned this lesson the hard way as did the Americans in 1776. A Monarchy, dictatorship if you will, is far more efficient than a Democracy but in the end more representative of the people, all the people, not just the elite.

We have a choice to make in November, it may be the most important choice we'll make in our lifetimes, don't blow it, we need a landslide.

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