One way or another, the primary topic in the political world is Le Grand Orange, the Leader of the Free World. And I'm tired of writing about him.
I don't want to shut down this blog, because I love to write and these days I spend most of my days directing and reviewing the work of other writers. But lately it's been a struggle to find any interest in what's going on in Washington or elsewhere. Beyond Trump himself, the other politicians on the stage right now are a dismal lot. Paul Ryan is smart as a whip but can't find his own ass with both hands. Mitch McConnell commands the respect of no one. Chuck Schumer is a strange combination of a carnival barker with the sense of fun of a funeral director. Nancy Pelosi is demented. Hillary Clinton is an even bigger narcissist than Trump. Meanwhile, closer to home, Mark Dayton is Gov. LePetomane and every other politician in the state is a dry well. It's hardly a promising landscape.
Sports was once a refuge from all that, but for the last several years politics has increasingly crept into the realm of those who play with sticks and balls. Colin Kaepernick and his portside girlfriend bore me to tears and I couldn't care less what Curt Schilling thinks of politics, either.
I'll get out of this funk. But it won't be easy.
8 comments:
Hang in there! While I can't help but share your dismaying assessment of our political leadership, I see cause for optimism. I love how Trump plays rope-a-dope with the media, distracting them with Tweets while real progress ("damage" from the media perspective) keeps marching on unnoticed. I keep hoping that McConnell and Ryan will pull off the old "Statue of Liberty play," having lured Democrats into complacency, and get some Big Stuff done. And for entertainment value, it's hard to beat watching Democrats daily prance through Crazytown, or a bunch of Snowflakes having a meltdown.
The Hipster thinks you should start a band. Mr D and the Apathetics Or maybe Ten Thousand Acediacs.
I get it, D. Were it not for my weekly political talk show, my blogging would be dialed back to maybe two posts per week.
as bloggers, we are too often reactive... blogging about what topics the other talkers have placed before us.
back when i was active, i tried to break free of that... discussing movies, food/recipes, a new product i tried, or that asshole that cut me off in the check out line.
give it a shot mark. you have the gift of vocabulary, something i have always lacked.
Plus, there are a lot of whiskeys that Gino has not even reviewed yet! :^)
(sorry, Gino, just couldn't resist)
Seriously, I don't blame people for getting discouraged. Politics has always been hardball, but it strikes me that we are crossing from what violence investigators call "social violence", a craving for status, into "asocial violence", violence that has no warnings, just a lashing out. That said, I've got a bit of the hope jerry talks about; that somehow, Trump is playing everybody the same way he probably played New York, and that he's actually got something good in mind.
Time will tell.
Bubba... wow..maybe i was too whiskeyed up to remember that phase... lol... yeah, it did happen.. loved every bit of it too... (regretted a bit of it, as well...)
point is, Mark: stop being/talking like somebody who you want us to think you are. Nobody at NRO will make you an offer, ok? you were not born to that crowd.They will never know you, and not a thing you do will change that...the Who that you are is Good. And you are not, in your real lived life, about politics. You are a real life man. you are about family, kids, groceries, utility bills, the Target checkout line...Be that.
point is, Mark: stop being/talking like somebody who you want us to think you are. Nobody at NRO will make you an offer, ok?
Heh.
Here's just a suggestion: Try to find the humor/irony/idiocy in the political scene and let that inspire you to write about it. It's the same result-- pointing towards correct policy and pointing out wrong policy-- but from a much less depressing viewpoint. I know you can do better, but here's just an example: When are the BLM folks going to demand that the statue of Martin Luther King be taken down because his ancestors owned slaves?
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