"כחי ועוצם ידי עשה לי את החיל הזה"
It is all *ME* and *MY* power. *I* did it! If something went wrong, *I* will fix. *I* will make things great. Look at *My* record, *I* have done so many GREAT things!!!! *I* am *My* hero! I should be yours, too!!
R' Chaim Ozer ztz"l: When falsehood and flattery made a shidduch and got married, their offspring was politics.
Nobody has the bravery to get up and say "This Corona thing has us on our knees begging for mercy. It is beyond human control. All we can do is try to contain it, look for a vaccine and pray hard to get through this."
It is not all Trump's fault [as negative a person as he is - we can't blame everything on him]. Somehow, it has affected every other country too, so it can't be all his fault. And Biden will NOT magically come and fix it.
We need a SERIOUS אנא ה' הושיעה נא. Period. Some things are beyond human control. This pandemic is one of those things. There is no human solution on the horizon.
Politicians rarely seem capable of saying "I am FILLED with faults, weaknesses and inadequacies. I have a big ego but a relatively small amount of abilities to justify it. But I will try my best, and together, with the help of G-d, hopefully we will be successful. With a lot of gaffes, goofs, mistakes and mess ups on the way". No. It is filled "*I* am the GREATEST". Like they think they are Muhammed Ali or something.
We Jews screamed "Hashem Hu Ha-Elokim" on Yom Kippur. We shouldn't get swept away by this election fever and forget it.
