Day 1171 – The Sad Reality
Friday April 3, 2020
212 Days until the election on November 3rd
292 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
Have you ever tried to focus something: a camera, a telescope; and it just won’t focus?
Maybe, it’s an auto-focus and it keeps making that errr-errr noise as it goes back and forth trying to find something to focus on – never succeeding. Yeah, that’s how I felt thinking about today’s screed, then it hit me as I walked up the stairs to my office; coffee cup in hand – The Sad Reality.
It’s like that tidal wave I told you about a few days ago. The one that wiped out Crete and launched the mythical Atlantis. When something that big is coming at you there’s no point in running. It’s way too late for that. You just turn open mouthed and wait. There are only a few split seconds before you are wiped away forever.
There are all these little bits that I saw, read, or heard since my last writing. Bits, vignettes, statements, visuals, emails, facebook posts, tweets – whatever. How to make sense of it? And then it hit me – The Sad Reality. I don’t want it to be true, but as Pogo would say, “There it is.” Or rather “We have met the enemy and they is us.” (If you don’t know who Pogo is look it the F up.)
The final focusing moments for me were these two tidbits:
One – Jared Kushner wandered into the White House briefing room and said the Federal stockpile of stuff was not for the states but “for us.”
Two – Some guy in a uniform with lots of medals (probably like a surgeon general second in command) said the masks were delivered. Delivered to commercial suppliers to sell on the open market.
Think about those two statements. Who is us? The first family? The Federal Government and if so what does that mean? The army? The Federal workers? Who is us?
The masks in the open market guy went on to say they weren’t there to interfere with the supply and demand marketplace.
Okay, I’m going to let that sit for a bit while I give you a few other “bits and pieces” (Hey, someone should make that a song. Dave Clark who? No no not the Who, Dave Clark. Who? No, Dave Clark. Never mind.)
Okay, we’ve know for awhile, ever since this guy came into office at least, that there is an alternate universe. It is made up of “alternate facts.” “Spin,” lies, disinformation, phony stories, all with a mean political objective. We used to laugh it off, ignore it, say to ourselves “no one in their right mind would believe this garbage,” but we are way beyond that now. 42% or some such steadfastly believe it. They post mean stupid things, they yell and belittle (“No, no. You don’t understand. You’re wrong.” Etc.) Now we see that world and ours collide.
The governors and local politicians thought that if they appealed to the Federal government that the Federal government would come to their aid. That when they, the local government, was overwhelmed they could get help from a larger resource. The truth is they can’t. That’s sad because that’s not the world we grew up in.
212 Days until the election on November 3rd
292 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
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