Something to demand

This is not about politics. Yet, it is all about politics.

We have had some rough and tumble presidential campaigns in the past. Dirty tricks, sly innuendos and dishonesty have marked previous races for the White House.

This campaign has the same disagreeable elements, but it is also different.

There is one thing missing in this election that may have defined some others.

It is a simple thing. It is something that rarely takes the spotlight, and it is something that is not often discussed.

This simple thing is common decency.

Kurt Vonnegut, best selling author of the seventies and eighties, de...