Monday, November 2, 2020

The Good Sleazebag or Bad Sleazebag

So tomorrow's the election. It's looking gloomy for everyone. The choice, apparently, is between good and evil. Unfortunately who is good and who is evil is a little unclear. In my view the bad guy, according to popular wisdom (i.e., the media), is actually the good guy whereas Joe Biden is sleazier than a used car salesman (sorry used car salesmen and women and haters of clichés everywhere).

What's worse is editorials "praising" Joe Biden (Boston Globe), or describing him as an "outstanding candidate" (Rolling Stone). This is a man that has influence-peddled for more than 40 years; has inappropriately touched more women and girls (hair sniffing and lingering forehead kisses included) than Muammar Gaddafi. How is any of this praiseworthy? How can editors write this stuff with a straight face? It's a revoltin' development, as the old saying goes.

Here's what we get with a win by Biden: a kind of soft totalitarianism where our rights will be curtailed for safety, abundance of caution, a lack of intellectual curiosity, sensitivity to select/popular/trending groups, language changes (better learn to speak woke!), continued stifling of contrary voices by the press, and an erasure of history. No wart will go unremoved from America's past. We'll also continue down the path of fighting racism with racism. Retribution is the name of the game. Half the country will continue to be shit on and thought of a dunces. 

And Trump unfortunately won't go away. Not because he's a loudmouth attention-seeker. But because the left needs a punching bag, a shibboleth (Nixon is still assailed and it's 2020!!). We'll just go from Trump IS the worst president to Trump WAS the worst president, ad nauseum. And there will be no criticism of the new regime! 

Tails you win, heads I lose will be codified.