Everybody’s freaking out. And it’s not about the coronavirus, but the government.

If you’re intelligent and informed, you’re staying at home, wearing a mask in public, doing your best not to catch the virus. But every day there’s more governmental insanity and you get scared for your future.

It was never like this, even in the heyday of Nixon.

Well, Nixon could send you off to battle, irresponsibly, for a war that could never be won. But now Trump is putting your life at risk and everybody feels powerless.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The nuclear codes, the button, that’s what we were all worried about. Everybody said there was only so much damage Trump could do.

They were wrong.

It comes down to the courts. They’re gonna lean right for the rest of your lifetime.

And it comes down to credibility and the rule of law, they’re now meaningless, out the window.

Now when I went to school we had fire drills, and nuclear drills, even though we subsequently learned hiding under your desk was not going to save you.

Now schools have active shooter drills. The thought of a gun on campus? Never crossed our minds. Boys had cap guns, and maybe BB guns, and if you went to camp you could shoot a .22, but most people didn’t own guns, you had a hard time finding someone who did, at least if you grew up on the east coast, in the suburbs, where I did. But now, gun sales are through the roof. Think about that, why? These people are obviously expecting bedlam. We had bedlam in the sixties, riots. But they were over race relations. What kind of riots are these people preparing for? Ones in which the rule of law is out the window and it’s every person for themselves?

So, they blew the testing. Today Newsom apologized, said it was on him, even though really it’s on the federal government, and if anything Newsom should be lauded for shutting down California early, at least compared to the other states. But the right now controls the narrative on California, it’s a state where real estate is through the roof and homelessness is rampant and taxes are out of control, so whatever California does is written off as insane and inapplicable, truly.

But Trump has never apologized, nor owned his failures. And if you’re paying attention, all you can see is incompetence. I’ve never met a person like this in my life. Maybe, just maybe there was someone in school or in Boy Scouts who was power-hungry and crazy, but we quickly cut them off at the knees. Meanwhile, Trump keeps gaining more power.

Yes, he missed on testing. Yes, he missed on self-quarantining. Yes, he missed on masks. But now that the government is finally getting up to speed on masks he refuses to wear one. Isn’t this just like the people refusing to stay home, refusing to stay off the beach?

And there’s that insane governor of Georgia, insisting the beaches stay open. Why? You read about those Texas college students who went to Florida for spring break, there were 70 and 44 came back with the coronavirus. What part of “infectious” do people not understand?

And then there’s “exponential.” We’re seeing that right now, in NYC, and also in the country at large. But New York is Cuomo’s fault. Yes, I know your head is spinning. Cuomo did not invest in ventilators and all those elite New Yorkers were asking for it. Read the right wing press, it’s horrifying.

Kind of like Hannity insisting Cuomo give patients chloroquine.

This was started by a doctor in France, Didier Raoult. But the truth is there were only 24 patients involved and they had mild symptoms when they started treatment. But do you know who is to blame that everyone is not taking chloroquine? THE JEWS! I kid you not, it’s a conspiracy! Big Pharma is controlled by Jews and chloroquine is not patentable, so they’re preventing its distribution. And Jews in the government are trying to kill off the elderly. You’d think I’m making this up, but it was in “Le Monde.”

But Trump isn’t quoting the progenitor, he’s quoting a doctor in New York who seems to have pulled his statistics out of his rear end. Isn’t that what they teach you in high school biology, the scientific method? But there’s no science anymore, just emotions, facts are irrelevant, if Trump says there’s a cure there must be.

And the person holding power over Cuomo is Jared Kushner, who made one of the worst media deals of all time, buying the “New York Observer,” overpaid on his family’s one big real estate deal and this is the guy managing the operation, one whom we did not even elect?

And then, in the midst of all this, Trump fires the intelligence community’s inspector general, because he forwarded the whistleblower complaint that ultimately got Trump impeached. Who the hell is gonna blow the whistle in the future, who is gonna stand up to Trump? Not even Fauci can, really, no one can!

And it gets worse and worse. There seems to be a Trump connection in the firing of the of that aircraft carrier captain trying to get attention for the coronavirus outbreak on his ship. The cover is he wasn’t following the chain of command. But the chain of command wasn’t responding and the sailors were all getting infected. Didn’t we used to applaud initiative in America, didn’t we used to laud mavericks?

So, you obey the rules until the ruler changes them.

And you’ve got the left saying the election will happen and if Trump loses he’ll leave because that’s the law…SO WHAT?

Meanwhile, the right doesn’t want voting by mail, doesn’t want any change because they’re afraid too many people will vote and they’ll lose! Their whole campaign is based on voter suppression.

I don’t care if you agree with me or not, I don’t even care if you’re a Trumper, science knows no bounds, you’ll wake up when the virus hits your neighborhood, maybe even your family.

But that’s not my point.

Let’s say a Democrat gets elected. Let’s say Biden. Do you think the 30%+ who are Trumpers are just gonna roll over and accept this, even if both houses of Congress turn blue? No way!

As for Biden, he’s got so much dirty laundry. Today Sarah Silverman retweeted news video from 1988 about Biden’s plagiarism: bit.ly/2wifauM Do you think the right is not going to harp on this?

Our country is so broken it’s nearly unfathomable.

We can’t agree on the facts, Kellyanne Conway says there are “alternative facts.” This used to be funny, but not anymore.

And Trump plays favorite with states, you’ve got to be nice to him or you don’t get supplies to combat the coronavirus.

And it doesn’t stop there, Trump excoriates corporations too, even when they’re doing what he’s asking them to!

So what happens now?

Some people will recover, some people will die, and at some point in the future we’ll go back to business as usual, even if it means more people dying.

And the believers in Jesus will try and pray the virus away, but even Rod Dreher in the “American Conservative” said no smart Christian would jump into shark-infested waters and that “all of us lock our doors at night, do we not?”

But reasonability has gone out the window.

And politics is a team sport. If Trump was convicted at the impeachment trial, the Republicans still would have held the Presidency, but it’s equivalent to the police blue line, cross it and you become a pariah.

But, once again, the he-said, she-said is no longer really that important. What we all can agree on is we’ve got a President who acts on whims, denies what he just recently said and demands total fealty, cross him and you’re done. Is this the country we want to live in?

But the right says the Democrats are so evil they cannot hold power.

Meanwhile, if you want an abortion, go to the back of the bus, we’ve got to focus on Covid-19 patients first. But they also have closed down abortion clinics and said you can’t get an abortion after a certain point in your pregnancy.

And then they say college campuses are bastions of liberal ideas, that they’re filling the younger generation’s heads with falsehoods and this must be stopped.

What they’re really saying is education, thinking for yourself, must be stopped.

The right is fighting on every front, and the left doesn’t understand this.

So, if Trump gets re-elected, and this could happen, what will the left do? NOTHING!

But if Biden wins…

Hold on to your hat.

I bought it the day I went to see “Last Summer” with my mother at Fairfield U., it was a screening with Frank and Eleanor Perry in attendance. I remember Frank saying they only used source music, that there was no score. And I was instantly wowed by Barbara Hershey, I didn’t seem to remember her from “The Monroes,” and honestly I didn’t quite get the rape scene at the time, this was before the #MeToo movement, this was before I was sexually active, this was long before we knew that Richard Thomas would become famous as John Boy and that Bruce Davison’s hair would go prematurely white. And when the web exploded, certainly after the year 2000, I looked up Catherine Burns, I always want to know what happened to people. Not much in her case. But checking up on Wikipedia just now I found out she died a year ago, of a fall and cirrhosis…when the spotlight fades and you get old do you turn to alcohol?

That’s one thing that’s not written about, how the older you get, the less you want to go out. You can never drop by. I’m not a big fan of Sebastian Maniscalco, but he does an amazing riff on this:

Sebastian Maniscalco: What’s Wrong With People?

(I know you’re inundated with links, but you should really click through on this one, because Maniscalco nails it and you’ll laugh and smile at the same time.)

There’s this talk about how the older you get you can’t burn the candle on both ends, but I’m not a big believer in this, actually I never liked to burn the candle on both ends, I hate being tired and in a fog. And the concept of people doing coke for days and never sleeping, that doesn’t sound fun to me. Although I do love to stay up all night, but I want to sleep the next day. But the bottom line is older people don’t go out just for the sake of it, they’ll go to an expensive dinner with their friends, they’re just not out at bars hunting for action. My point here being that for many boomers self-quarantining is not the big deal it is for younger people.

Searching for the best night of my life, and to be honest I had quite a few, I imbibed plenty, but then you never scale the heights again and you feel lousy the next day and something happens that makes you give it all up, at least that’s what happened to me. I never loved the taste of alcohol, I never hungered for a beer, but if you wanted to have fifteen and seek the aforementioned best night of your life, I was the person to call.

Also, the funny thing is the more money people have, the more worried they are about costs. Kids’ll pay fifteen bucks for a watered-down drink before adults will, but I’m digressing.

I instantly became a huge fan of the Perrys, that’s what happens when you see someone live, same deal with a good band, and went to see their next flick, “Diary of a Mad Housewife.” That’s the one that starred Carrie Snodgress, who went on to live with Neil Young. I knew who he was singing about in “A Man Needs a Maid.” That’s when music and movies were intertwined, not by soundtracks, not by financial impact so much as being on the bleeding edge, the essence of the cultural zeitgeist. You’d go to the movie and come out numb. Like after “The Last Picture Show.” Maybe the last time this happened was in ’79, with “The Deer Hunter,” now you leave the movies and want to get a meal, after all, the empty calories on screen don’t fill you up.

I probably would not remember the day I bought “Strange Days” if it didn’t coincide with the “Last Summer” screening. My mother made me go. My mother is a culture vulture. Staying home was never in her playbook until now, contradicting what I said above, there are always exceptions, but in today’s gotcha culture personal police are constantly informing offenders of exceptions, as if they denied the essence of what was said.

So I’d taken the VistaCruiser in the afternoon to buy the album.

But I’d had very little time to play it.

I’d skipped “Strange Days.” I went straight from the debut to “Waiting for the Sun” and “The Soft Parade.” I might be the only person who liked “Soft Parade,” the critics hated it and have been piling up on it ever since. Of course, the hit was “Touch Me,” which I never loved, but I could not get enough of “Runnin’ Blue” into “Wishful Sinful,” and what came next, of course, was the title track.

When I was back there in seminary school
There was a person there
Who put forth the proposition
That you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
You cannot petition the Lord with prayer!

People used to quote this to me all the time. But no one has recently. It’s like everybody’s lost their energy to be clever, to connect through art, the oldsters are all about possessions and lifestyles, where they are on the socioeconomic ladder, even though they professed they all wanted to be in it together back in the sixties. That’s the biggest change I’ve seen, income inequality. There are certain things people can do that others will never be able to. Like in the “Times” today, they talked about two girls taking the same class at Haverford. One was sequestered at her parents’ mansion in Maine (and it is a mansion, at least for a second home, you can see a pic here:

College Made Them Feel Equal. The Virus Exposed How Unequal Their Lives Are.

and the other was working her parents’ food truck in Florida.

Now after being excoriated by the critics, the Doors went back to basics on “Morrison Hotel,” but they didn’t get as much ink, and this was before every burg had its own underground FM station, when most people only heard the hits.

And then Morrison died, and critics have been piling on ever since, but they all seem to agree the last album, without Paul Rothchild, “L.A. Woman,” is really good.

Now I never ever hear anybody talk about “Waiting for the Sun” these days. However, “Love Street” epitomizes the sixties more than all those documentaries, it sounds like it was cut in L.A., with sunshine and opportunity, which is why everybody wanted to move to California, they wanted to be free.

But you hear even less about “Strange Days.”

Until now.

1. “Strange Days”

This was no “Break On Through.” “Strange Days” was not a Stones album opener, at best it was an introduction to what followed. It was good, but it was not spectacular, it was not something your friends had to hear when they came to your house, which was a regular activity when we all had different albums and played them for each other.

2. “You’re Lost Little Girl”

Dark. Sure, the Doors had radio hits, but it was their darker material that bonded their fans to them. Hit music today is not dark. After all, when you construct a song by committee no one opens a vein and admits their flaws and foibles, in a group you want to fit in, and you might be able to call yourself a “geek,” but “loser” has never come into favor.

I bought “Strange Days” in the fall. The days were getting shorter, and when it’s dark outside, it’s the more personal, darker tracks that resonate.

3. “Love Me Two Times”

Don’t trust the statistics on this. The web will tell you that this made it to #25 on the singles chart, but you never heard it on AM in the New York area. Oh, you heard it on FM underground radio, but that was not for everybody, certainly not yet.

And listening right now on the Genelecs, via Amazon Ultra HD, I’m stunned how good this sounds. That changed the music, the poor reproduction methods that started to become de rigueur in the nineties, when suddenly a boom box was a stereo. And now reproduction is so bad, through tiny earphones, that the bass is emphasized in recordings and all nuance is lost. So, even if you want to take a lot of time to make an exquisite sounding album, almost no one is ever going to hear it that way.

4. “Unhappy Girl”

We were unhappy. At least I was. There was no web, there was no way you could connect with like-minded people all over the world, instead you were either popular or you were not. And if you weren’t, you spent a lot of time in your home, listening to music, fantasizing, dreaming, that you were in the bar with Jim encountering an unhappy girl, thinking that the two of you would connect.

5. “Horse Latitudes”

Huh?

No one else was doing this. And since we played these albums from beginning to end, we knew it. It seemed like artists testing limits, something that is not part of the mainstream today.

6. “Moonlight Drive”

The sixth song on side one, which was actually a lot at this time, people had started to go down to five. Sure, you could make a double album and have almost sixty minutes of music, but this was long before the seventy-odd minute CD era when there was too much music to digest, the single-oriented web is a reaction to that.

A good track, that once again, made one think of Los Angeles, after all, we’d seen enough movies of this.

And now, I’m gonna do what Deep Purple did when I went to the Wiltern to see them perform “Machine Head” in its entirety, I’m gonna flip the second side and save the best for last, as Vanessa Williams sang. You know, when the snow comes down in June. Actually, I’ve seen that, and if I ruled the world it would happen every year. I loved this song so much, I taped it from MTV so I could hear it whenever I wanted to, this is what you used to do before the internet. And last year I had dinner with Ms. Williams and she was so forthcoming and open, most celebrities are on guard, but if they feel simpatico, they’ll open up and tell you anything. You see artists are a tribe, and even though most people love the work, they don’t truly understand those who made it.

4. ‘When the Music’s Over”

A poor man’s “The End,” at least that’s what it seemed like to this listener, even though my understanding is its creation predated the issuance of the initial LP. I liked “When the Music’s Over,” but it seemed pedestrian compared with “The End,” it didn’t quite resonate the same way.

3. “I Can’t See Your Face in My Mind”

Dreamy. Part of the album, but not really memorable.

2. “My Eyes Have Seen You”

It struck me back then how there were two songs in a row about seeing, didn’t offend me, but I just thought there was somebody involved who would nix this. Did you read the obits of Bill Withers? Columbia told him how to do it, so he just stopped. Another reason why today’s era is better than the old one, however we do have miles to go to coherence.

1. “People Are Strange”

Once again, don’t trust the stats. They say “People Are Strange” made it to #12 on the singles chart, but the truth is most people didn’t hear it until FM rock radio was ubiquitous, then it became a staple, maybe played infrequently, but enough to the point everybody knew it.

People are strange, definitely, but not as strange as the era we’re in.

We don’t know if we’re gonna live or die, whether to be on total lockdown or ease the rules just a bit, whether only old, infirm people will die or it could happen to anybody. There are no answers. We’re used to answers, look at the web, you can look up anything! But when it comes to Covid-19…

One thing is for sure, we were unprepared, and the virus is still ahead of us, we’re still trying to rein it in, get control of it. Meanwhile, people are still denying it’s a big deal.

It’s eerie, just like this song, just like “Strange Days” itself.

That’s why “Strange Days” endures, it’s strange and a bit distant itself. I can’t name another album that sounds like it. If they were looking for a hit single, they were so far off the mark it’s funny. I mean the next album had “Hello, I Love You,” which seemed to be a blatant attempt for radio attention, with an interesting sound, but vapid lyrics. And, unlike anything on “Strange Days” it was in your face. Hits grab you immediately, get stuck in your brain but never migrate to your soul. It’s the album cuts, that which is left of center, that resonates and changes your life.

So, “People Are Strange” has been running through my brain every day for weeks.

But I don’t think I’m the only one.

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The big news today comes, of course, from the governor of Georgia:

“Georgia governor says he didn’t know asymptomatic people could spread coronavirus”

Well, I’ll say he’s either lying or dumb but I’ll bet on the former. We live in a world of no consequences, one in which the elite can get a Covid-19 test and bribe their kids into a good college and the hoi polloi are ill-informed and unaware of the levers of power, never mind knowing how to use them.

Taken in concert with today’s “New York Times” pictures, you’d think there’d be consequences, but there will not be.

“Where America Didn’t Stay Home Even as the Virus Spread”

Pictures don’t lie, and this one is horrifying, but don’t expect this to move the needle either.

And speaking of the “Times,” scroll down to read the top ten states with the most deaths per capita, and the top ten infected counties per capita.

Louisiana is number five in deaths. Florida is number six, the governor finally relented and told everybody to stay home, but only when Trump told him to.

As for counties…

#1 is Blaine, Idaho, where Sun Valley is located. Proving once again, the richer you are, the more you travel, the more your business is based on travel, the greater the odds you’re gonna get infected.

#10 is also a resort area, Eagle County, where Vail and Beaver Creek are located.

But number nine?

Dougherty, Georgia. And the governor just issued a stay-at-home order yesterday?

But, once again, don’t expect any of the above to change minds. There are two sides, and either you’re on one or the other.

Today the “Times” did an analysis of the right wing/Fox position:

“Alarm, Denial, Blame: The Pro-Trump Media’s Coronavirus Distortion – Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing commentators turned the pandemic into a battle of us vs. them – the kind of battle President Trump has waged for much of his life.”

Bottom line? It’s the Democrats’ fault.

Yes, that is what right wing pundits and Fox are saying.

Rail all you want, but it’s not gonna make any difference.

But do you know what might make a difference?

Attacking the Murdochs.

“74 journalism / comms professors + journalists have written an open letter to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch about the network’s coronavirus coverage”

This is a good start.

Let me tell you how business works.

You start at the top, with the decision makers, if the person you’re interacting with can’t say yes, bypass them.

This is especially true in the music business. That A&R guy up your rear end? Chances are he doesn’t have signing power, he’ll butter you up for eons and then come back to you and say his hands are tied, his boss doesn’t want to sign you. Either you need to know and make contact with the boss, or you have to have a representative, like an attorney, who can make that contact. In most cases you’ll learn you’re wasting your time, the label just isn’t interested, they like you, but won’t sign you. As for label heads saying they trust their people, that’s hogwash too, because if something is hot enough, they jump right in.

Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are not pariahs.

But you could make them such. All it would require is an organized effort, which the Democrats seem unable to construct, unless it’s an inside job.

“How ‘Never Bernie’ Voters Threw In With Biden and Changed the Primary – After Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire and Nevada, his campaign hit a roadblock: a wide range of Democrats who would do anything to stop him. Joe Biden became their vehicle.”

Finally, some truth. We’ve been hearing for weeks how Bernie blew himself up, nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is he was winning so much it was clear he was going to be the candidate and the Party and its voters got together to stop him. Candidates dropped out, media attacked and people were convinced they had to vote for Biden to stop Bernie.

But they still don’t like Biden.

You need to read Karl Rove’s piece in today’s “Wall Street Journal.”

“Biden’s Weak Election Strategy – Instead of leading, he panders to Bernie Sanders and criticizes President Trump”

I don’t agree with that headline whatsoever, once again, it’s just the right working the refs. But if you read the article, you’ll learn:

“It also found that only 24% of all Mr. Biden’s supporters were ‘very enthusiastic’ about him, compared with 53% of Mr. Trump’s.”

“‘Deja vu,’ writes ABC News. Hillary Clinton’s ‘very enthusiastic’ score was 32% in September 2016.”

What do we call this, hate-watching?

If you’ve got a big personality, if you take a side people are drawn to you, either positively or negatively. This is not only Trump, but Fox News itself. Thank god that the right criticizes Rachel Maddow, that means they’re paying ATTENTION!

So, the right defined Hillary, that’s why she lost, it’s more about that than Trump’s “virtues.”

But Trump is gonna kill Biden in the debates. Biden couldn’t even stand above his competitors in the Democratic debates, and when it came to going one on one with Sanders, he employed the right’s technique, he just lied:

Biden Is Still Lying About His Positions on Social Security Cuts, the Bankruptcy Bill, and More

The left lets this slide, but the right does not when there’s something at stake, when it’s challenged. The right is gonna amplify Biden’s faux pas to such an extent that even the left will nod their heads in agreement.

I still think Biden wins in the end, I think the anti-Trump sentiment is just that strong. Look at 2018, and focus on the fact that all the media had that one wrong, days after the election we found out the Democrats triumphed, but the news is all about a snapshot, they want eyeballs today, forget about the trends.

So, the numbers from Karl Rove’s piece? They’re from the ABC News/Washington Post poll, so don’t tell me they’re skewed. Yes, this is the poll that has Biden beating Trump by only 2% points. Once again, one thing we’ve learned in the last twelve months is how fast things can change, can you say Elizabeth Warren, can you say Covid-19?

Now right wing media is not completely aligned with Trump. If you read the heinous “Wall Street Journal” Op-Ed pages, you’ll find that the WSJ has continually excoriated Trump for bad business decisions. But the average older Republican is watching Fox, and the younger ones are reading the “Daily Caller” and “Breitbart.” In other words, the WSJ is just for the elite, the cadre the right belittles but the people and entities truly benefiting from Trump’s policies.

So, in today’s “Wall Street Journal” there’s another story:

“China Asserts Claim to Global Leadership, Mask by Mask – Beijing is providing equipment to hard-hit nations such as Italy, drawing a contrast with the U.S. and making sure everyone knows about it”

This is very simple, you may think the United States is the greatest country on Earth, but a lot of the world doesn’t agree with you. And it’s not only authoritarian countries like Hungary, but Italy.

Sure, the U.S. has done some things right, but the government is so disorganized, it can’t get a coherent message out.

But the governor of Massachusetts and the New England Patriots can:

“New England Patriots team plane flying 1.2 million N95 masks from China to help ease coronavirus shortages”

If you’re following the Covid-19 story closely, you know that Trump handed responsibility to the states, and now the federal government is bidding against those same states for supplies. This event makes the government look like losers and the Patriots look like winners. The Patriots know how to play the game, and it’s not only Bill Belichick. Robert Kraft owns the Patriots. He got caught with his pants down, literally, and his high-priced attorneys basically got him off. Kraft knows the public attorneys are no match for the private ones. He laid his money down. Furthermore, Kraft knows a lot of the country hates the Patriots, so this one good will effort builds “the brand,” as Marty Byrde says.

Yup, Marty Byrde from “Ozark.” It started off slow in the first two episodes, then it got really good. Don’t tell me the ending, we still have two episodes left (and did you know “Money Heist” is coming back on Friday??)

But in one episode, Laura Linney, aka Wendy Byrde, is laying down the law with an elected official and she says what separates the winners from the losers is COURAGE!

Most people ain’t got it. They don’t want to hang their ass out on the line. They go with the program, they fear being ostracized. But all the winners have this courage.

The leaders of the right have courage in spades! They don’t care what you say, they just keep plowing ahead towards the destination. Will they get their comeuppance? Could happen, but the blitzkrieg is so intense it’s got the left on its heels.

So, if the left wanted to make a difference, it would have a full court press on the Murdochs. Meanwhile, airing all of Hannity, Ingraham and Carlson’s dirt. And there’s plenty. To get to the top you’ve got to leave propriety behind. And one thing the internet has taught us, no one is completely clean, everybody’s got baggage. And if you watch “Ozark,” you know that it’s all about using that leverage to your advantage.

The Democrats rallied around Biden, but they just can’t stand up to the right. They kick and they scream and it makes no difference. You’ve got to start at the top. You’ve got to make the Murdochs uncomfortable, a lot of their friends and business partners are not Republicans. The Murdochs have to risk becoming public pariahs. Business people have gotten a free pass compared to celebrities. Maybe because the business people are smart and the celebrities are not. The business people play for the long term. The business people work the system, they don’t make a play every day.

So, if the left wants to change the narrative and teach people the truth, it’s got to organize and play by the right’s rules.

But it ain’t got the courage. The left listens to Karl Rove and stops attacking Trump, Rove gets the left so unsure of itself that it’s easily beaten.

Come on, the right has been beating up on Nancy Pelosi intensely for over a year. What does she do about it? DOUBLE-DOWN! Pelosi knows how the game is played. Sometimes you have to shove the shiv in, sometimes you have to do the unpopular, the seemingly tawdry, it’s all about winning in the end.

So if you’re a Trumper, you should be laughing. Your opponent can’t even get in the ring. The Democrats can only sit in the stands complaining. And the only way you win a fight is by putting up your dukes and going on the offensive.

So, you’ll see a lot of quoting of the “New York Times” above.

The right has neutered the “New York Times,” even though every mover and shaker, Republicans as well as Democrats, lives and dies by it. The right just tells the ignorant lemmings that it’s worthless. But the Democrats don’t defend it.

And the “Times,” unlike Fox News, is so busy trying to give the appearance of neutrality that it will not defend itself, it will not get angry.

So, as you can see, Covid-19 put all of America’s issues in stark relief.

And this is the moment of change.

Sure, we’re gonna hear about equipment and deaths and mistakes, and that’s all important, but the real battle comes in the future. The Democrats have alienated the younger generation by rallying behind Biden, and what is their olive branch to the kids? BLAME! Yup, they’re Bernie Bros uneducated on the issues, they’re unrealistic, they are the problem, their issues like the environment must take a back seat and meanwhile, all those oldsters who rallied around Biden should be thanked, even though the young people will disproportionately lose in a Biden administration. The media and the DNC have this all wrong. They got their chosen candidate, but they can’t stop beating up on their constituents.

Once again, the Democrats are disorganized and dumb and the Republicans are organized and smart.

Can the Democrats handle the truth?

I don’t think so.