i think we are beginning to see what's going to happen to the people left behind. there'll be the people die in prison, people who will be hoary when they next take a free step, and lots of people-who-can't-be-reached living shadow lives. i wonder if russia would take any of them. they'd have better lives there pretty much regardless.
my impression is he was a pain, but he was a general in the continental army and had command of an important fort. i don't see anything like that on mitch what's-his-name's scorecard. mitch has mostly been window-dressing before he made his name as a traitor.
yes, he is, and i keep making that mistake. i can't seem to get it in my head that mcconnell's name is mcconnell. maybe my respect for mitchell keeps intruding.
in atonement, will you accept this amusing reminiscence of chris squire meeting jimi wherein mitch gets mentioned?
i knew benedict arnold, and mitch mitchell is no benedict arnold.
err . . . well . . . actually i didn't know him, but i've known of him, and mitch mitchell is no benedict arnold. arnold got taken in by the brits and made the kind of mistake that defines a life, but prior to that he was a stand-up guy. mitch mitchell has been a waste of breath his whole life. to conflate those two men to the same basic historical image is a crime against history.
lordy, that's good news. have to hope this is just the break-of-the-wave moment and we'll see the young take charge. this is the sort of broad-scale change that i've been talking about. any ideas we've had about hope may prove to be woefully short-sighted. as i said the other day, the wicked are beyond saving, but the youth is getting an education we didn't get. they may redefine who we are.
also, any who don't believe the politics in this nation is undergoing a major shift need to pay attention to what's happening with the baptists. i don't think we are headed left except that way leads to center.
not in the traditional sense, no. but what's being exposed right now will become the guideposts for future generations of this nation. the most damning thing you will be able to say about a despised politician will be to say he/she is just another trump. watergate had something of that effect but it didn't begin to go far enough. just enough was aired to make the situation worse. to make a monster like kissinger but not begin to deal with it.
our young generations are showing a lot of promise. how they incorporate the lessons we are being forced to learn is going to be the answer. the rot cannot be touched. just outlived. if new wood is good, it will eventually take over. poisons that permeated elements of this nation since before independence have taken this long to come out, and the cure is going to take a long time and be very unpleasant.
as awful as all this is, it is absolutely essential that we bring this all to light if we can and address issues that have plagued this nation for many years. this is painful to say, but the whole debacle needs to get much worse. up to a point, the worse it is the better for our future.