We don’t have to worship Biden to vote for him…because when we vote for him, we’re voting for us and we’re voting for democracy, and this is our last chance. If that sounds like partisan hyperbole, you’re not listening to Trump and his acolyte’s own words. And after that debate—lying on one side, goodness and aged exhaustion on the other…I feel a sense of care and sadness for this American experiment: that is, freedom, and democracy.

While I said the below before the many and growing calls for his retirement to make space for a new group of candidates, the ethics or values herein apply 100%: 

 

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Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis presents:

In the latest episode of Elephant’s long-running, award-winning podcast and video series Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis…

Our natural and healthy tendency to become distracted by the daily vicissitudes of life and, is, on the flip side, the result of not treating what is urgent as urgent because we are…distracted. 

“This next free and fair election is probably our last if we lose it, and by we, I mean Americans. It is folks who believe in democracy running against those who don’t.

I wanted to share right now is that sort of Buddhist or human feeling that I was left with after a long day of work. It’s just sadness. Sadness is not weakness. Sadness is genuine and it’s beautiful and it’s hard.

I just feel a lot of loss for the United States.” ~ Waylon Lewis

Or, listen to Waylon’s Podcast Version: 

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