So, my ridiculous Dunwich post was an outgrowth of a political meeting I went to last night. I’m getting involved in town government for the first time in my life and it already looks to be a nightmare of cosmic proportions. Although I’m happy to say it probably does not include the risk of being eaten alive by a squid-headed dragon from deep space.
But it will involve getting involved with some fairly offensive progressives on a one-on-one basis. Yeah me!
But I guess if we’re ever going to make progress on fixing things, somebody is going to have to get his hands dirty and why shouldn’t that somebody be me? I won’t bore you with the details but it will be directly involved in elections so you might say I’m getting right down to brass tacks.
In contrast to my contempt for the Stupid Party in Dunwich, the actual Republicans in my town are good people. Being in New England means we’re always swimming against the current of blue state government and its toxic agenda. But we have managed to stave off the worst of their programs and influence. This off year election will probably not be a good one for Republicans at the state level. The state employees own the state and runaway tax increases seem to be the default position used to keep the pension bubble pumped up. When that dam finally breaks it’s going to be a flood of red ink that won’t be fixable. But until then let the good times roll, I guess.
You know, today I was reading some of the Democrat happy talk about how the “inflation reduction” act would win them the mid-terms. Is it possible they believe that? The only two choices I could come up with is:
- It’s just whistling past the graveyard and there’s no substance to the conclusion.
- They know that they’ve got the voter fraud thing completely worked out and they don’t have to worry about elections anymore.
I’ll leave it up to the readers to pick which one of these two choices it is. Or add a third choice of your devising.
I’ve been ploughing through the Yellowstone photos. I’ve got about three thousand files. They’re mostly landscape and some wildlife but I was happy to see that a lot of the plant and flower shots look good. There are some very interesting flowers in that locale and they make good macrophotography and close-up photography shots. But it’s still going to take me a while to make much progress. With end of summer activities and all my other responsibilities breathing down my neck it’s slow going.
So, we’re about eighty days before election day. Joe Biden’s approval rating has soared up to 40%. And the Democrats are flogging the inflation reduction meme as hard as they can. I guess they have to do something. Maybe they plan the October surprise to be an indictment of Trump right before the election. I’m of two minds whether that would make things better or worse. Maybe that goes under the same idea that doing something is better than doing nothing.
And finally, I was thinking about how nice it must be to live in a state like Florida or Wyoming where the majority of people are like me and get to have the state government that I would want. I’d just like to say for the record how much I envy all of you in the solidly red states. I feel like it would make my life feel twice as happy to not hate my state government and not have to endure the constant bombardment of harmful and maddening government actions.
Well, I better get back to writing my campaign victory speech, “Fourscore and seven days ago …”