I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait until the onslaught of political campaign ads hit.
“I’ve been looking forward to this all summer,” said no one — ever.
But regardless, they are coming. Thankfully, in our Washington, our supreme court has authorized a candidate running for office, an elected official or a political action group to lie, which too many politicians often do.
It’s not only OK, but even encouraged.
Of course, restricting them would be a two-edged sword; on one hand, who would decide what the truth is? On the other hand, we can hear it and make up our own minds.
I prefer being my own fact checker.
Thankfully, though, for those so inclined, we have a third choice: the opinions of elites such as Hollywood actors and the rich.
You know, people just like us who understand grocery prices and such.
As an official member of the Old Farts Club now, I have gone from chuckling about my dad and his “board meeting” members at McDonald’s discussing their weekly doctor appointments to having the same conversations with my associates.
But one thing I have not heard any of them do, though, is get medical advice from Hollywood. That just seems like a bad idea.
So why are we so enamored with people who are frequently basket cases themselves that we’d value their opinion on anything, let alone an election?
I sure don’t know.
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Meanwhile, in the real world — not Hollywood or the land of the rich and famous — we suffer from inflation and crime and other problems, but help is on the way! Day one, the border, crime, and all our worries will go away, although I wonder why we have to wait? Isn’t Kamala Harris already in the executive branch?
Anyway, this week, the Democratic National Convention will get underway, and I’m only certain of a couple things. First, if it’s possible, we will see a push even further toward crazy than we already are with the border, crime, spending and, most importantly, to a dark culture. Abortion on demand.
Cloaked in a nice sounding name like women’s health care by those who can’t even define a woman, it will (and already is) loudly promoted with free abortions at the convention.
Recently, I was reading about the lengths NASA (our government) was going to seek life on other planets, Spending billions of dollars on research, development, telescopes and launches to space to look for and find it.
Like high school geometry, I don’t really understand it, but I don't necessarily object to us spending money we don’t have on it. But I can think of a place where we could identify life and it would be cheaper and make more sense — a mother’s womb.
I’m well aware people are very polarized on the issue of abortion, but making it the center of a platform is just wrong. And it’s worth mentioning those who adamantly supporting abortion have loud voices, but who speaks for the unborn baby? And how is it women’s health care at all and not infant care?
Thankfully, I’m certain we’ll hear more about this all week by convention speakers as this appears to be the defining issue of their national campaign, along with side issues of all the other problems their policies have created but plan to fix on day one.
Meanwhile, NASA continues to look for signs of life in space, like microbes and such. Great joy will be expressed over this discovery, but how will they know it’s in fact life? I’m really interested in hearing about that because if an actual baby with a heartbeat isn’t life, what is?
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John McCroskey was Lewis County sheriff from 1995 to 2005. He lives outside Chehalis and can be contacted at musingsonthemiddlefork@gmail.com.
