Which Georgia, Which America?

The results of Georgia's Senate runoff will reveal a lot.

Within the next few days, we will learn a bit more about my state and my country.

Today’s US Senate runoff seat between incumbent senator Raphael Warnock and challenger Herschel Walker will give us an idea on how much sway the former president still possesses, and how much the American populace has become unenamored.

On one hand, we have a sitting senator who has brought credibility and substance to our representation. Like him or not, agree with his politics or not, he is a solid, respectable statesman who is well-informed, articulate, and is willing to work with the other party to create meaningful legislation.

His political views are more in line with a growing number of Georgia voters, particularly in urban and suburban areas. He has campaigned and acted in the best of interest of the majority of Georgians.

His opponent is his opposite in every way. While Senator Warnock decided to run based on his own ideas, Herschel Walker is running because his “friend” the former president cynically believed that his race and name recognition would make him a formidable candidate.

What this friend didn’t take into consideration is that the former player for his USFL football team is one of the most unqualified candidates in American political history.

To say that his candidacy has been an unmitigated disaster is being generous. Walker has proven to be embarrassing, unintelligible, and incomprehensible. His autobiographical book detailing mental illness and admitting to being violent and threatening violence somehow made it past political vetting.

Whatever reasons one may ascribe to his behavior – his nonsensical statements, convoluted political theories, and clueless demeanor, he is totally, wholly unfit for political office of any kind.

His selection as a candidate was a racist, calculating ploy that reeks of banality and venality, and altogether typical of the man who selected him.

For political representation that already “boasts” the embarrassment that is Marjorie Taylor Greene, and once included Larry McDonald and Cynthia McKinney, adding Herschel Walker will cause my beloved state to reach an unparalleled nadir.

We know that the racism, nativism, and conspiratorial miasma that allowed the former president to be elected still exists. Even if Senator Warnock is re-elected, the threat remains that someone smarter and just as evil as Walker’s patron, like Ron DeSantis, might win the presidency.

But checking his influence by defeating his cynically selected candidates is an excellent start.