e-commentary

. . .

K          “What do you do when you are neither Purple nor Red nor Blue?  I am at a stage and a place where I do not have a party or a gang or a tribe or a club or a clan or a squad or a refuge.  The situation leaves me blue.”

J          “Blue will still do.”

. . .

K          “Decades ago, I noted that if you are not what was once called a ‘liberal’ at the age of twenty, you did not have a heart; if you were not what was once called a ‘conservative’ at the age of forty, you did not have a head.  The admixture of  heart and head does not always produce predictable results.”

J          “Mugged by reality.  And actually mugged.  I have moved rightward on a few issues primarily economic and financial as I have moved through life.  The Blue core endures.”

. . .

K          “For decades, I self-indoctrinated by waking to NPR in the morning, listening all day and evening, and then slipping off to sleep at night with the radio still broadcasting.  I even assisted the NPR folks with money and time.  Thousands of hours and dozens of fundraisers later, something emerged and escaped.  Things did not add up.  There was and is much more to the story.”

J          “They are still a font of insight.”

. . .

K          “I have studied and observed every major institution.  They have failed and are failing.  I find that credit unions may be one of the few institutions working in America.” 

. . .

K          “I look back and wonder if I did not unwittingly take a ‘Red Pill’ along with my multivitamin and zinc every morning.”

J          “I don’t touch the ‘Blue Pill’, yet I still vote Blue.  There is no alternative.”

. . .

K          “I deeply understand how the world operates and who is in control.  I could not be more cynical about its prospects than ever.”

J          “Now we agree.”

. . .

J          “But Blue will still do, I tell you.”

K          “Not the current hue.”

. . .

[After years of tinkering with first drafts and contemplating the journey, the original “e-ssay” that kicked things off a score years ago appeared at Boycott Red America (January 3, 2005).  Based on the statistics, it has never been read by anyone other than the author.  One anniversary piece at Post Number 1000!  And Still Having Fun!  Oh, And Happy Post Number 1000! (November 18, 2024) looks back at the trek.  Today is the four-year anniversary of the event addressed last year in January 6:  The Country Needs An Impartial And Objective Inquiry (January 8, 2024) that revisited the initial discussion four years ago at On Riots And Rampages (January 11, 2021)).]

[See the e-commentary at The War On Truthful Journalism Marches On;  U.S. Carpet Bombing Propaganda And Censorship Campaign Rages On (August 1, 2022), N. Propaganda R. Transcribed:  “Get Vaccinated.  Attack Russia.”  Oh, And Happy Presidents’ Day! (February 21, 2022), Red State Medicine v. Blue State Medicine; Red Continent Medicine v. Blue Continent Medicine; WCH v. WHO (October 25, 2021), [Don’t] Support Public Media? (June 10, 2019), National People’s Radio?; National Public Radio?; National Petroleum Radio?; National Propaganda Radio? (June 11, 2018), Dispatches From The War On Journalism: The New “Nixon’s Enemies List” (December 5, 2016).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

We have met the enemy, and boy oh boy is he and she ever you and me.  Mr. Pogo.

“Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.”  Bob Seger, “Against the Wind”  (Someone suggested that Bob Seger regretted the syntax.  He crafted a perfect poem.  Not a word too many; not a word too few.  The two contractions are critical.  Wish I’d written it; what I can do is quote it.) 

Boycott Red [_] Blue [_] Other [_]

Jimmy Carter

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