Fear and Loathing in Late July
It’s getting weird out there.
Just yesterday, the Vice President of the United States was in California claiming that the average American is only $400 dollars from declaring bankruptcy, while on the other end of the continent a delusional, dizzy, and clearly scrambled President was claiming that “Bidenomics” has created the greatest economy since--well, ever.
They can’t both be true, can they?
Mixed messaging from the great Head Shed in Washington seems to be the order of the day, though the origins of this bizarre situation are murky. It probably has something to do with the late pandemic when we all got to enjoy watching people of extremely low character and extremely high ambition exploit a virus to cement their own power. It wasn’t that long ago, you may remember, when we were arresting schoolchildren for refusing to wear masks, slapping pastors in bracelets for holding services in parking lots, sealing people into their houses, wrecking small businesses, fistfighting over toilet paper, and firing people from their jobs because they refused to take an experimental vaccine. Covid shaming was an actual thing, a vile behavior that exposed the surprising number of closeted witch-hunters who live amongst us. Things got weird very fast, as they often do when human beings allow themselves to be governed by fear and propaganda, and it isn’t clear that we have returned to anything resembling normalcy.
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