There was a time, many moons ago, when I posted to this blog on a daily basis. Back then, we thought things were going wrong, but within limits that could be rectified. You know, George Bush was an idiot,but we could look forward to replacing him with someone good, and we actually did, and things seemed to be going well for awhile.
We’re living in a different world now, we’re on the brink of a fascist takeover. There’s plenty of things to write about, but it all seems so obvious that it’s hard to come up with a subject that seems worth discussing, since I’m fairly sure anyone reading this blog is totally aware of what’s going on. On the other hand, the obvious stuff appears to totally escape the notice of the mainstream press. I’m pretty sure they’re aware of it, but they hold off discussing it because they don’t want to get attacked. You know, stuff like Trump’s obvious dementia, which would be all over the front pages had Joe Biden exhibited the same symptoms. And then there’s the bending over backwards to make the absurdities sound somewhat sane. For instance, I read an article in the New London Day, which was from the Washington Post, about Trump’s claim that Tylenol caused autism. Every attempt was made to make what is clearly an evidence free assertion sound sane.
Particularly disturbing these days is the inability of establishment Democrats, particularly those in Congress, to understand what is happening in this country. Or, if they do understand, they have made a conscious decision to pretend that they don’t, and that they are still living in the pre Newt Gingrich era when relatively sane Republicans controlled that party. Not only do they pretend to believe they can deal with Republicans, they also kowtow to them in disgusting ways. The reaction to the Charlie Kirk murder is a case in point. Murder is wrong. But the fact that he was murdered does not make Charlie Kirk a saint. He was a despicable racist, a purveyor of hate. Yet a majority of Democrats went along with a resolution honoring Kirk. He doesn’t deserve to be honored. Were he a left leaning individual, Republicans would be praising his killer, as he implicitly praised the man who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband or they would be joking about the killing, as other Republicans did about the Pelosi attack and after the killing of the Minnesota Democratic legislator. I’m not suggesting Democrats should go that route, but they should be as one in insisting that Kirk was in fact what he was, a loathsome individual. That’s only part of it, of course.
For years the Republicans attacked the “liberal media” until they got what they wanted, a media that bent over backwards to “both sides” every issue, which at this point means “double standard”, i.e., ignoring Republican corruption and incompetence, or whitewashing it, because, after all that’s just Republicans being Republicans or Trump being Trump so it’s not news, but it would sure get publicized if a Democrat did it. It’s time that the Democrats started attacking the press for this very thing, but of course they won’t. When I suggested they should do so to one of our Connecticut politicians he responded that Democrats don’t do that because they believe in the First Amendment. It has nothing to do with the First Amendment. Criticizing the press is a form of speech and perfectly legitimate, especially when the criticism is justified.
There has, so far as I’m aware, never been a president before Trump who has traded on the office in order to enrich himself. If any of his predecessors did it, the corruption was small potatoes compared to what he’s done. The media reports it as Trump being Trump and then moves on, and Democrats hardly say a word. They are equally silent or subdued when he engages in a speech that is both full of lies and fully demonstrative of his rapidly increasing dementia. I should note here that the European media doesn’t share the reticence of the American.
End of rant.