I wish it weren't so and I hope I'm wrong. Biden's been terrible on the border, the deficit, and -- God help us! -- foreign policy. We need a strong leader like Trump. But -- sorry -- we're not going to get one.
(Unless things change, which they usually do. At least I hope they do.)
The economy is decent. Prices are high, but inflation is coming back down, and people have jobs. Economic growth is rapid, and interest rates are probably coming down next year. Stocks will probably rise.
Trump is the victim of a crazy campaign of "lawfare." That has earned him the much-deserved support of the Republican voter base. The rest of America doesn't care and many probably believe the charges.
I don't care what the polls say. People are afraid of the chaos Trump brings. Biden is a total failure but people will take it over the chance of catastrophe. I hope Trump wins. But he's probably going to lose.
Don't forget that Biden has vote-by-mail working for him; media bias; tech censorship (oh yes, it still exists); plus the courts and the rest. It means it's almost impossible for him to win. It also means that the Republicans won't accept the result and that many will lose faith.
I hope I'm wrong. I haven't lost hope for America. But here we are.
The story of Noah is familiar; the details, less so.
Noah is often seen as an ambivalent figure. He was righteous -- but only for his generation. What was his deficiency?
One answer suggests itself: knowing that the world was about to be flooded, he built an Ark for the animals and for his own family -- but did not try to save anyone else or to convince them to repent and change their ways (the prophet Jonah, later, would share that reluctance).
Abraham, later, would set himself apart by arguing with God -- with the Lord Himself! -- against the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, saying that they should be saved if there were enough righteous people to be found (there were not).
Still, Noah was good enough -- and sometimes, that really is sufficient to save the world. We don't need heroes every time -- just ordinary decency.
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An interesting weekend -- one of the last of Daylight Savings Time -- in which there is much to celebrate, much to contemplate, and a bit to worry about.
The Gaza peace deal is shaky, but holding, after the living hostages returned; the shutdown is still going on, with no end in sight; the China trade war is heating up; and the confrontation with Venezuela continues to escalate.
The "No Kings" protest was a dud, despite the media's attempt to inflate it. What I find fascinating is that the Democrats have basically stolen the rhetoric and the imagery of the Tea Party protests, circa 2009. They claim they are defending the Constitution -- just like the Tea Party did.
On the one hand, this is good. How wonderful to have a political system in which both sides, bitterly opposed though they are, articulate differences through the Constitution -- and not, as in so many other countries, outside it.
On the other, this is sheer hypocrisy for the Democrats. Not only did they malign the Tea Party as ...
