Admitting It Now

It all started for me back when the now departed Ernest "Fritz" Hollings bellowed in his Southern, stentorian way that there was "just too much consuming" going on around here. That old-time DemocRAT wanted Americans punished for and limited in their prosperity. He certainly was not the first, but was early in annunciating it out loud for the public to hear. DemocRATS have probably largely agreed with the underlying sentiment since at least the days of FDR, if not back to Wilson. The current crop and the cabal they have mismanaging the country is overt in declaring their socialist intentions, but use excuses like COVID and Putin to justify their economy-crippling actions. It is not a plausible rationale to harm one's own nation and people to fight a virus or thwart aggression thousands of miles from the Homeland, while more folks than ever are catching COVID and death tolls just keep rising. Putin seems to be getting richer while Americans endure higher prices on everything. Perhaps, the DemocRATS should start lying again and at least pretend they still favor the "little guy" over their billionaire donors and corporate and even foreign chronies.