Opinion: Michael Ian Black: Make America Sane Again—Cut Election Races to Two Months
Well, we’ve reached another electoral milestone. After two years of campaigning, fewer than 50 days now remain until Americans go to the voting booths, wait for the polls to close, endure hours of election coverage followed by days of uncertainty, followed by lawsuits and the potential for political unrest. God, time flies when you’re having fun.
Why do we do this to ourselves?
I was watching a YouTube video of an American couple (their channel is called “Baguette Bound’) who moved to France, and they were highlighting some of the things they prefer in France to America. Among the ho-hum reasons, like not being worried your kid is going to shot at school, they pointed out an interesting fact: French political campaigns only last a few weeks.