Beautifully framed, oh perspicacious poetess. No do-overs, except in choose-'em-up stickball, in which street kids become a self-organized collective without the need of "higher authority." Damned socialist impulses, continually thwarted by our celebritized elite, who are de facto authoritarians in the service of self-interest. If conversations with self-styled "liberal" acquaintances are any indicator, boredom set in when Trump departed their daily consciousness, and sleepy Joe entered. It seems that bogeyman derangement is therapeutic for some of these folks, their vitriol perhaps a desirable counterpoint to pandemic boredom. And Putin is the perfect substitute target for that vitriol, these folks telling me that they hate Trump and Putin with equivalent fervor, and for reasons that, in their minds, render Vlad and Donald with a broad enough brush to place them in the same category of global villain. I could understand that anti-authoritarian impulse if it also extended to the other villains still walking the planet with impunity. The Clintons and Bibi Netanayahu immediately come to mind. But no worries, G.W. Bush has been rehabilitated. Redemption is always available to the most vile warmongers, as long as they don't much disrupt Americans' daily consumption schedules.
Beautifully framed, oh perspicacious poetess. No do-overs, except in choose-'em-up stickball, in which street kids become a self-organized collective without the need of "higher authority." Damned socialist impulses, continually thwarted by our celebritized elite, who are de facto authoritarians in the service of self-interest. If conversations with self-styled "liberal" acquaintances are any indicator, boredom set in when Trump departed their daily consciousness, and sleepy Joe entered. It seems that bogeyman derangement is therapeutic for some of these folks, their vitriol perhaps a desirable counterpoint to pandemic boredom. And Putin is the perfect substitute target for that vitriol, these folks telling me that they hate Trump and Putin with equivalent fervor, and for reasons that, in their minds, render Vlad and Donald with a broad enough brush to place them in the same category of global villain. I could understand that anti-authoritarian impulse if it also extended to the other villains still walking the planet with impunity. The Clintons and Bibi Netanayahu immediately come to mind. But no worries, G.W. Bush has been rehabilitated. Redemption is always available to the most vile warmongers, as long as they don't much disrupt Americans' daily consumption schedules.