It is 2020, the start of a new year, of a new decade, of revived hope, of renewed determination. Tradition says it’s time for resolutions while reality says they seldom work. But there is, in fact, much amiss in this American nation we love, and we must fight back, peacefully, of course, for the good under attack in so many ways, at so many levels.
You may think I am being trivial, but let’s start with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the bright new face of the Democrats who recently stood close to the cranky, old face of Bernie Sanders. She said ours was not an advanced society, that we were in fact headed toward fascism. I personally doubt she knows any more about fascism than she knows about climate change, immigration or economics, but she’s on to something.
I mean, isn’t she herself in combat with our society’s advances? When she calls for a Green New Deal that would be a totalitarian wipeout of the economy, she does nothing for the cause of combating climate change reasonably. Her calling the Electoral College a racist “scam” was incendiary fatuousness. When she talked of fascism, we know, she was referring to wily, wacko President Donald Trump and the supposed deplorables who support him.
The scariness is that the expanding, mindless left sums up so much that is amiss, even though there is a lot that’s amiss that has nothing to do with politics. Let’s have a list that at least touches on some of the worries.
