To illustrate the topic of this entry, only about a month ago the worry was the end of the financial world as Congress was playing political brinkmanship with the National Debt ceiling. After circling the wagon train, preparing for the worst, hark, the sound of the cavalry bugles at the last minute, Congress agreeing to raise debt levels, extending the issue “all the way” to December 3. Meanwhile, the financial markets resumed its steady march to the heavens, particularly as the Federal Reserve is between a rock and a hard place, not wanting to raise rates. Clearly, the Treasury cannot afford to pay more interest on the steadily mounting debt. Short term memory: everyone has conveniently forgotten December 3. Soon it will be headline material again, a hot potato political issue.
Meanwhile, the Trumpublicans are pleased about the recent elections, demonstrating that their lord and master showman’s prestidigitatorial gas lighting can still opiate the American mind. Simple formula, tar all Democratic candidates as “socialists” or associate them with the big bad wolf (Critical Race Theory, something most Trumpublicans cannot explain), and equate any reasonable COVID policy with a “loss of freedom.” Nice little sound bites for somnambulistic sheep. However, no doubt their obedience has been nurtured by the intransigence of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
The most serious reminder of our short-term national memory, however, is the upcoming (only two more months) one year anniversary of the most serious domestic attack on our native soil since the Civil War, the January 6th insurrection.
We all watched it. Our elected representatives experienced it. We have the evidence how it was masterminded, what the end game plan was, and several Senators and Congress people who decried it during the immediate following days, now have all conveniently whitewashed it and have allowed the architects of that horrible day, unfettered by consequences, to do it again, perhaps now more “legally” given voting law changes in Republican states, redistricting, appointments of State Election Commissioners who will do what they are told as well as conservative judges at the local levels of Government.
Imagine if this attack was orchestrated by the Duchey of Grand Fenwick – we’d be bombing the hell out of them.
Why our Justice Department cannot swiftly act on this matter defies understanding. Are our political system and the American psyche so poisoned? Even our 4th Estate seems to have left the scene of the crime. The montage of headlines the day after this egregious breach of democracy was filled with outrage. Where is it now?
