Make It Stop!

(Apologies to the estates of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Simonides)

Half a league, half a league,

Half a league onward,

Into the valley of boredom, I crawl.

O stranger, tell the readers of OCF that

I lie here, obedient to their reading preferences.

This summer and fall will be well-nigh unbearable.  How many thousands of stupid posts by moronic pundits and half-witted lefty hacks will I have to read.  And how many polls of the “swing states” will we see announcing that the electorate is finally waking up to this or that inane platitude about the race?

How many more times will some hysterical Democrat-water-carrier wring his hands and beg Joe Biden to stand aside and let Gordon Gecko look-alike Gavin Newsom jump into the race?  And at the same time how many more progressive lickspittles will wax rhapsodic about Joe Biden’s towering intellect and astounding oratorical skill?

Of course, I will be rewarded by the weekly comedy of Biden fumbling over one syllable words or his feet.  And every once in a while, we’ll have the Benny Hill-like hilarity of Joe being dragged away to the nearest bathroom before his pants explode.  Sure, this stuff is great.  We all need a good laugh.

But all in all, we’re all just marking time until we find out whether the Democrats are going to fake the November election results or let Trump win as he obviously would under an honest election.

Some of you might say I’m whining.

Well, I am!

You see, I’ve been trying to come up with an alternate strategy for getting through the five months before the election.  I keep thinking I can replace political news with book and movie reviews and photography and science articles.  And maybe I could but I find that I’m spending too much time reading the political news to also keep up with these other areas and so it’s a vicious cycle of dependence.  Alas, alack.

Well, maybe I’ll learn and straighten up and fly right.  After all the universe is full of interesting things.  Like:

• Colliding neutron stars giving rise to stellar sized ejection clouds of pure gold.
• Rising tides of “far right” parties in Western Europe.
• Government warnings about the deadly “bird flu” and the miraculous appearance of an amazing vaccine!
• Nigel Farage running on the Reform UK Party ticket and predicting Reform will replace the Tories.

So, I’ll stop whining now and start looking for things to write about that don’t include the words Biden, Trump, Washington or boring.

So, let’s start with Farage.  A recent article lays out his read on how the Tories abused the gift he gave them in the Brexit issue and instead governed as leftists.  And now that they’ve burned away their whole voter base, he wants to replace them with the Reform UK party.  Of course, in the upcoming election this year Labor will be the primary recipient of the Tories’ implosion.  Labor will be the majority party.  But if Reform can get a decent handful of seats, they can begin the long process of replacing the Tories and giving the English people a party that actually represents the opinions of the people.  Interestingly, the election this year is on July 4^th.  Maybe if Reform gets off to a good start on the Fourth of July some of that magic might infect our politics too this November.

At the very least the founding of the Reform party should be a lesson for our country.  The Republicans have been fake conservatives for long enough.  Someone should either dramatically reform it or start a legitimate conservative third party to drive it out of business.