THE GREATNESS IN DIMINISHMENT

 Did you ever think you would see the Israelis sweep their enemies off the board in a series of lightning fast and devastating blows that actually left the PLO untouched? Me neither.

Did you ever think a President would repudiate the pardons issued to criminals by a former President? Me neither.

Did you ever think that a President would allow the Federal Court judges to run amok in such a clear and obvious fashion that no sane observer could look at it and find it tolerable in a Republic that such low-level appointees and truly low-life officials of the government each thought they had the power vested in just one American and by their own actions would negate all of their influence over policy? Well, yeah I did.

As I read this fascinating article I thought about the things that were once so powerful they were simply left unmentioned and which faded away literally overnight as useless as buggy whip factories. It is and will be harder to conceive in the future how great the power of the mass media and newspapers were to our history and policy. It is even more amazing to see how they have diminished to the point where nobody even noticed them when they were gone.

The article mentions the works and effects of Elon Musk. He bought twitter, you know. What isn't even mentioned is that one of his near peers bought that major influencer, The Washington Post and with that the sudden realization comes; Twitter's reach is nearly infinite but the Washington Post is a non-factor at every level today and if Bezos decided to sell it tomorrow there is unlikely to be anyone stupid enough to buy it. It would, like the Plain Dealer and a thousand other papers, fade away and be forgotten.

One of the sadder realizations is that with the diminishment of education in this country that there are fewer and fewer people who will document and read the documented history of the disasters like Obama and Biden and their policies as they uniquely, as American presidents, set out to destroy, diminish and demonize America. I have to wonder who that 29% of Americans are who still have positive regard for the democratic party. I hope I don't know any of them.