Change Just Over The Horizon?

I have been trying not to be distracted by politics; almost an impossibility. Worse is being distracted by digestive problems. I collected the following since roughly last Friday up to today. I meant to write more, but I needed what energy I had for my fiction.

Even so, it appears that Trumpism and its incipient fascism has come up against the fact you can fool all the people only part of the time.

It may be that I will finally get confirmation that Indiana wants change, what it lacks is a focus and faith to initiate that change. 

 Republican cash advantage showing up with late spending in Indiana legislative races (Indiana Capital Chronicle)

Rep. Ilhan Omar fires back after Trump accuses her of using an alias

“Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine,” Omar said in response to the president’s social media post. “So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar. Maybe you should focus on what your VP’s real name is,” Omar said on social media Friday.

“Any other implication is a flat-out lie,” Jackie Rogers, spokesperson for the congresswoman, told the Minnesota Star Tribune on Friday.

Blatant political attack showing the Trump people's inability to make a blatant political attack work.

Rep. Ilhan Omar clarifies full name after federal raid, alias allegation (FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul)

FOX 9 also found her junior-year school picture from Edison High School in Minneapolis. The yearbook listed the 17-year-old as "Ilhan Omar."  

Americans' income hits record, with wide gaps mirroring Indiana disparities (Axios Indianapolis)

Inflation under Trump is only about half the rate under Biden. Voters are still just as mad. But corruption is up. I have one quibble with the article. Counting from when, everything else I have read is that inflation is about the same as when Biden lost the election.

Speaking of corruption, read Taxation And Representation (Sheila Kennedy).

Holiness and Hedonism: On the Contradictory Duality of American Power (Literary Hub) a reminder of our good, ugly, and bad history.

 

 

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