On election night 2020, I participated in a podcast panel made up of guests from different political backgrounds and leanings. The questions posed included what we each predicted would happen that night and what it would mean for the next four years. In line with a podcast I put out earlier that year, I predicted a slight Biden victory. Trump would scream the whole system was rigged, and the country would descend into even greater polarization.
The host asked each guest for final words as the podcast wound down. My words included a familiar tone for those who have followed the End of History for some years. The deeper issues in our country are not political. We are dealing with a society full of fractured humans, and the next day, at least half the country would feel frustrated and hopeless. We must begin addressing the reality that politics cannot answer the fundamental problems of our corrupted human experience.
I suppose I should not have been, but I was genuinely surprised when the liberal guest on the panel used his final words to correct me. He indicated he was all for faith and hope, but this is the real world, and we must focus on ‘real problems.’ Therefore, politics is of primary importance, and we must concentrate there before we start looking to heaven.
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