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Now listen, well, look (read, that is), one of the last things folks need (to include my readers, who are less than legion) is for this geriatric soul to write about the political situation here in this land we love.

That’s for sure. So, I’m going to do so anyway, here on the cusp (love that cliché word) of an election. Some very smart folks say it is the most important one perhaps ever. Hyperbole? It seems not.

Jon Meacham, a contemporary historian of impeccable bona fides, offers a real thought inducing “take” on this election. He says it’s the American people who are on trial. Think about it. How we vote is on trial.

One party’s nominee says he wants generals like Hitler had. Really? They were loyal, he says.

Oh, big guy, you don’t know your history. Hitler’s generals, many of them, were involved in several plots to overthrow him, several to assassinate him. Many of them paid with their very lives.

Perhaps the most famous of them was Field Marshal Irwin Rommel. The Desert Fox. Trump said he never heard of him. Such abysmal ignorance.

The former president said so many outlandish, untrue things, blatant lies his supporters pay scant attention. As one political expert said, they shrug, as if oh, that’s just Trump, you know.

The sad thing, the very dangerous thing, is a second term of a super narcissistic sociopathic, unhinged man, puts our democratic form of government in peril.

He has told us he would be a dictator. His return to office will be marked by vitriol; by vengeance, revenge, against any who have opposed him. To think otherwise is to be self-deluding.

General John Kelly, Trump’s first Chief of Staff, said Trump is “the most flawed human being I’ve ever known.”

Come on, now, Mr. Column Writer, you are just anti-Republican.

Really? Well, let me name just a few, only a very few, of many Republicans I admired:

John McCain. George H. W. Bush. Bob Dole. Theodore Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln.

I could name more, too.

What advice, counsel, might I offer to those who have not availed themselves of early voting options?

I would simply say, Pray; and vote your conscience. As Jon Meacham remarked, “In this election the American people are on trial.”

May Divine Providence have mercy on our land and its people.