Great closing point. But we have to get to a point where that’s possible and it seems to me that a lot of people are beholden to the Harlan Crows of this world. I don’t see campaign finance reform happening.
With perhaps equal blindness, I find it difficult to foresee anything that’s ahead for America at the moment. Today’s newsletter is …
Great closing point. But we have to get to a point where that’s possible and it seems to me that a lot of people are beholden to the Harlan Crows of this world. I don’t see campaign finance reform happening.
With perhaps equal blindness, I find it difficult to foresee anything that’s ahead for America at the moment. Today’s newsletter is reflective of a phenomenon that may be just getting underway. Professor Cox Richardson had any number of stories that in monts past could have been the subject of a newsletter coupled with some historical analogy to give us insight into circular patterns in American history.
Instead the force of events is such that she was reduced to simply cataloguing them succinctly. I’ve been thinking about this for some time now. It’s getting very hard to see any pattern because too many important events are happening, or are about to happen, at once. At this point who among us can foresee the the random but important outcomes that will occur *because* these events will intersect and bear fruit we can’t yet see.
I hear and read about all these candidates judiciously “picking lanes” to run in and who that will attract or repel. This, at a time when a former President is about to be indicted for crimes of deep gravity while at the same time running for the Presidency again. This alone is going to generate a massive tsunami of emotion and action. We have no idea what will happen. Will their be violence? Will Trump resort to some extreme action to try to mobilize his base? Are we certain he even has a base anymore? What will be the effects of the tensions that will build as would-be Presidents attack Trump more and more fiercely? Will they get washed overboard or will they generate some desperate rearguard action within the Republican Party to try to establish even a shred of relevancy?
Sometime major is going to happen as the indictments collide with Presidential ambitions at a time of complete disarray in the GOP. And it will be entirely unforeseen. And it will spawn a whole other set of results. The base, however much of it remains, is going to be roiled. The market will possibly feel giant tremors.
And this is *only* the antics in the Republican race. What about the food fight in the House? Will it have substantial impacts, such as confusing and fracturing people who hate Democrats even more than they are already?
And there’s a war going on. The dam attack may have huge implications which (pardon the pun) may bring America to a crossroads.
All the while we fret about Robert Kennedy and the No Labels party ruining the Democrat’s chances, Mother Nature is tuning her violin in the background. The Northeast is plunged into an eerie midday darkness from massive fires in Canada (sorry for that). She is going to be heard from again and again and we might not be worrying much about the Iowa caucus when the next disaster comes.
My point is that we are not getting a moment to stop and think about context and intersections of the events driving us. History has sped up and now is not a time to sweat the small stuff. If anything, we can be grateful for relative calm and sanity in the Democratic world. Imagine being Nikki Haley and being forced to describe yourself as a “badass woman” to try to get a shred of attention.
Very sensible. I run and go to my grandchildren’s sporting events. But still the prognostications of media’s wise old men and young whippersnappers reach me, and I am dumbfounded. Nine years ago, they couldn’t have been more certain or more pompous in poking holes in DJT’s candidacy.
I’d love to be paid for stupidity and arrant certitude.
Great closing point. But we have to get to a point where that’s possible and it seems to me that a lot of people are beholden to the Harlan Crows of this world. I don’t see campaign finance reform happening.
With perhaps equal blindness, I find it difficult to foresee anything that’s ahead for America at the moment. Today’s newsletter is reflective of a phenomenon that may be just getting underway. Professor Cox Richardson had any number of stories that in monts past could have been the subject of a newsletter coupled with some historical analogy to give us insight into circular patterns in American history.
Instead the force of events is such that she was reduced to simply cataloguing them succinctly. I’ve been thinking about this for some time now. It’s getting very hard to see any pattern because too many important events are happening, or are about to happen, at once. At this point who among us can foresee the the random but important outcomes that will occur *because* these events will intersect and bear fruit we can’t yet see.
I hear and read about all these candidates judiciously “picking lanes” to run in and who that will attract or repel. This, at a time when a former President is about to be indicted for crimes of deep gravity while at the same time running for the Presidency again. This alone is going to generate a massive tsunami of emotion and action. We have no idea what will happen. Will their be violence? Will Trump resort to some extreme action to try to mobilize his base? Are we certain he even has a base anymore? What will be the effects of the tensions that will build as would-be Presidents attack Trump more and more fiercely? Will they get washed overboard or will they generate some desperate rearguard action within the Republican Party to try to establish even a shred of relevancy?
Sometime major is going to happen as the indictments collide with Presidential ambitions at a time of complete disarray in the GOP. And it will be entirely unforeseen. And it will spawn a whole other set of results. The base, however much of it remains, is going to be roiled. The market will possibly feel giant tremors.
And this is *only* the antics in the Republican race. What about the food fight in the House? Will it have substantial impacts, such as confusing and fracturing people who hate Democrats even more than they are already?
And there’s a war going on. The dam attack may have huge implications which (pardon the pun) may bring America to a crossroads.
All the while we fret about Robert Kennedy and the No Labels party ruining the Democrat’s chances, Mother Nature is tuning her violin in the background. The Northeast is plunged into an eerie midday darkness from massive fires in Canada (sorry for that). She is going to be heard from again and again and we might not be worrying much about the Iowa caucus when the next disaster comes.
My point is that we are not getting a moment to stop and think about context and intersections of the events driving us. History has sped up and now is not a time to sweat the small stuff. If anything, we can be grateful for relative calm and sanity in the Democratic world. Imagine being Nikki Haley and being forced to describe yourself as a “badass woman” to try to get a shred of attention.
We live in interesting times indeed. Hold on.
Yes, Eric O'Donnell, and I understand now how "Living in interesting times" is a curse.
I find myself retreating from the fray; reading Harry Potter fan fiction and hanging new drapes over my windows.
Very sensible. I run and go to my grandchildren’s sporting events. But still the prognostications of media’s wise old men and young whippersnappers reach me, and I am dumbfounded. Nine years ago, they couldn’t have been more certain or more pompous in poking holes in DJT’s candidacy.
I’d love to be paid for stupidity and arrant certitude.