I make it a big point to stay out of the cultural bubble and stay in touch with people outside of politics because I know how people can convince themselves everything is fine and follow each other off a cliff.
I don’t know how to say this, but I am grossed out by the solicitations for money. I know that’s what’s been done in the past. I’m grossed out people apparently cannot get lawn signs from the DNC for free. Lawn signs are $25 each at some independent websites. Apparently Donald Trump lawn signs are free. Is this true? I really haven’t had time to verify because I have to carry on a sense of normalcy for work while living in a pandemic earthquake (yes there was a quake Sunday) wildfire back-to-school season.
Yes, I live in San Francisco and have donated in the past to campaigns and am probably on some lists of “likely to donate”. But is anyone here old enough to remember Tom Daschle? I will never forget the snail mail I got, in San Francisco in 2004, “Tom Daschle stood by President Bush after 9/11”. I vaguely remember a picture of him hugging George W. Bush. Then it asked for money. No. Then he lost his senate seat despite outspending his opponent by magnitudes.
Remember this outdoorspersons’ saying, it’s how those hikers trekked out of a wildfire three days ago. “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.”
I don’t care about Michael Cohen or Bob Woodward. Well I think Woodward is gross for withholding that information for a book. But I don’t care about him that much. I grew up with fires in our backyard, around town igniting and being put out. The skies were never orange. There were no rainclouds yesterday but the sky was dark as night at high noon. I’ve hiked through prescribed burns in the eastern Sierras. Fire inside a forest is calm and slow. Wildfire on prairies moves very fast. I am familiar and comfortable with fire. This is different. It’s not something “that could be bad by 2050”. Someone tell the media to stop saying that.
Please venture out of your cultural bubble. Give people a reason to vote FOR Biden. If you think they should. Should they? Is he adaptable in times of rapid change? Does he have character? Will he get in the way of real people solving real problems?
And don’t you DARE scream at me that “climate change is real” if you have not at least test driven an electric car or started composting. Push yourself up a spot if screaming that tired phrase is all you do to address climate change right now.
