This clusterfuck response the feds have had is in spite of their being plenty of expertise to pursue the best course, means the Repulican Party is now the party of Trump, and regularly and vigorously opposes scientific analysis and expert advice. The cult of wanting to "drain the swamp" of the entrenched bureaucrats, apparently means getting rid of expert testimony that disagrees with the powers that be, on a very regular basis. Nice formula to lower the population count, if nothing else. My feeling is some day Trump will replace Harding, Nixon and company as the most corrupt group in history. No, I feel no satisfaction in stating that or believing it; I feel the opposite, dread and remorse...

In Sam's Club the other day: half the people are not wearing any sort of mask (though they sell them at Kroger now), and the pharmacist assures me this is pretty representative of the populace that shops there, and that is a sad commentary indeed, equating freedom with the right to ignore sound advice. I guess if you don't have chemo for your curable cancer, that can be an exercise in freedom, but an exercise in the insanity that can be free choice, not a wise exercise of freedom at all. It seems grossly childish, not to mention dangerous.

I keep seeing these commercials by this Spartz woman running for Congress, telling me how she will resist the Socialists in Washington, because she knows the disasters of Socialism, having emigrated from the Soviet Union 20 years ago, which means she came after the fall of Communism, not before. At any rate, trying to equate generous welfare states with the Soviet Union or North Korea, is like trying to equate a firecracker with a nuclear bomb. It's so ridiculous that it seems a product of either psychosis, or the idea that any lie is good if it leads to victory. Do these types of shrill ideologues ever have any limits?

Its hard to believe--and not hard to believe--that the grand American experiment started by the Mayflower ends in Pentocostals overwhelmingly supporting an anti-Christian who has no interest in Jesus Christ, and every interest in supporting his own cause over and above the cause of the country. Having done plenty of idiotic things in my own life, I know how easy it is to be lead astray, but one always hopes that in democracy--the worst system there is except all the others--one will develop some sort of herd intellectual immunity for all the foul winds of howling mass thought, but apparently it is not so. I do indeed tremble when I recall personal experiences of how ruthless reality can be with unrealistic dreamers. And evil is first and foremost, a real hater of reality.