It is like an NFL team that’s only won one game on an opponent’s penalty and is down by four touchdowns at halftime and the coach says, “Hey, on any given Sunday no one can know what will happen.”

All of the R politicians named are at least engaged in the arena. They are doing something, whether or not it is effective. The question is, “what can the rest of us do besides complain and be prophets of doom.

The answer is simple but not glamorous. Engage in small ways. Contribute money, time and effort to candidates who can actually win even if they are not philosophically perfect. Volunteer as an election official. You don’t need to catch D crooks at your neighborhood polling place you just need to show your neighbors that at least in one small place our elections are still fair. Ask questions of you Progressive friends and family. Don’t lecture them. They won’t listen. Genuinely try to understand where they are coming from and in the process they may discover that they don’t actually know. Do something to actually take car of the poor, sick and addicted of our society and show your neighbors that charity begins with each of us not in Washington or the State capitol.

We got where we are one step at a time. The only way back is one small step at a time. We may not survive the journey, but what choice do we have. Sitting down by the side of the road, proclaiming it all hopeless and criticizing those who trudge past you is a vote for who got us here.

As bad as things look today, this is a picnic compared to Valley Forge. To quote Winston Churchill, “Never, never, never, never give up.”

“Experts are no better at predicting the future than a dart-throwing chimp.” — Tetlock

Right now, those confidently predicting the future have completely fumbled their humble. The moment someone cites a poll, I know they have stopped using their brains. Even in relatively sedate, ordinary election cycles, no one knows. Who predicted Biden? And NOW?! With both leading candidates in the midst of the most bizarre and destructive lawfare, corrupt proceedings, who can even predict the situation by Nov 2023?!

Polls are crap. And polls right now about Nov 2024 aren’t even good enough to qualify as crap. People need to stop flinging polls at each other like chimps at the zoo flinging crap at each other. The chimps come off as more thoughtful and mature.

Humans citing polls for what will happen far into the future are less accurate than a crap-flinging chimp.

Manslaughter would be nice.

A preposterous charge? Unserious?

All the better.

Democrats have completely destroyed trust, good faith, honesty or any other positive aspect of American society. I don’t want to travel to or through any blue city. Because justice is not available if someone attacks me or my family.

Obama’s transformation has happened. All that remains are the explosions and the fires.