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Mom\u2019s Saying<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My London-born mother had an expression, when there was so much to do that it never seemed to get done: \u201cThere\u2019s no rest for the wicked\u201d.  It must have been from her Roman Catholic upbringing, something the nuns would say in school when there was far too much work to do.  That would have been right after they administered the cod liver oil, and before they made students hold out their hands for rapping knuckles with a ruler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even in retirement there seems to be times when there is \u201cno rest for the wicked\u201d.  We always thought retirement would be boring, but somehow days fill up fast, and it seems as tiring as the eighty hour weeks we routinely worked back \u201cin the day\u201d.  \u201cNo rest for the wicked\u201d though, we\u2019ve got things to do.  Even \u201csheltering in place\u201d hasn\u2019t really been \u201crestful\u201d.  I wouldn\u2019t say there was home remodeling, but the utility room and garage got a complete overhaul, there\u2019s a new hot tub off the deck, and lots of little things are getting done.  Installing new blinds to cut the sun baking into the family room was today\u2019s mission.  That was after hours picking up \u201clost dog\u201d signs in Lancaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resting on the Polls<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With all we are doing, it\u2019s easy to get a little complacent about politics.  It\u2019s not like I\u2019ve ignored what\u2019s going on in the world, if you\u2019re reading this essay you\u2019ve probably seen several (dozens, hundreds) of essays about everything that\u2019s happening.  But I do find myself saying:  \u201c\u2026 we\u2019ll have to fix that in January, after the election\u201d.  I\u2019m certainly not letting the current Administration off the hook:  there\u2019s been two impeachable offense THIS WEEK.  But the House won\u2019t waste its time with another impeachment. And the Senate could never find the testicular fortitude to convict, even if they knew they should.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, the complacency comes from the polling.  Every public poll shows Joe Biden leading by wide margins.  And it\u2019s not just the national polls, Biden\u2019s leading in the key polls:  Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida.  He\u2019s even leading in Texas, and purple-red Ohio.  And it\u2019s not the \u201csoft\u201d polling we had with Hillary; it\u2019s a solid trend across the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Core of 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201c25% of world COVID infections are occurring in the Southern United States,\u201d Peter Hotez, Dean of the Baylor Medical College just said on Meet the Press<\/em>.  And that may be the best reason for Democratic complacency, as awful as it may be. Donald Trump is doing nothing to gain control of the COVID pandemic.  His lack of action, and lack of compassion, is burying him.  In an election about competency, Trump gets a failing grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Biden is playing it perfectly.  He is acting \u201cPresidential\u201d, standing up and saying what a President should do.  He is presenting the perfect contrast:  what he would be doing as the Chief Executive, versus what is happening now.  The Trump 2020 campaign is desperately seeking a way to attack Biden, but the COVID crisis simply buries everything they try.  It even buried Russia paying a bounty for American soldiers lives in Afghanistan (that happened last week \u2013 remember?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ninety Days<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But the election is ninety days away. That\u2019s almost a quarter of a year, in an era when one week changes the entire narrative.   No on wants COVID to be the only story of this election.  If it is, then that means we are in for an historic tragedy in our nation.  I\u2019m hoping others, like Republican Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio, will realize that they have the power to stop the viral growth.  If they don\u2019t step in who will:  certainly not the man in the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats can\u2019t depend on the \u201cobvious\u201d to win the election.\u00a0\u00a0We have to turn over every stone, bring out every voter, and call every number.\u00a0\u00a0Volunteers can\u2019t knock on every door in a pandemic, but we need to find a way to reach out and get the voters out for Biden.\u00a0\u00a0We need to remember this: Hillary didn\u2019t lose because Trump won, Hillary lost because too many stayed at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voter Suppression<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Trump campaign will do everything it can to suppress the vote.  It\u2019s a sad commentary on the modern Republican Party:  fewer voters equal a better chance of winning.  What kind of political party is that for a democracy?  And it won\u2019t just be making the voting process itself more difficult.  Don\u2019t be shocked if there\u2019s an \u201cOctober Surprise\u201d about Biden, just like FBI Director Comey provided against Hillary in 2016.  It\u2019s not to get people to vote for Trump, just to get folks to stay home instead of voting for Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Job<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t let your Never-Trump friends off the hook.  Don\u2019t let them buy the \u201cJoe Biden is going to defund police\u201d or \u201cJoe Biden is a child molester\u201d crap.  Just quietly explain that the national disaster that is the COVID pandemic was largely avoidable.  And make sure they get the point, that Trump made it far, far, worse than it ever had to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voter registration ends on October 5th<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0Early voting in Ohio starts on October 6th<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0And you can (in Ohio) always request an absentee ballot<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s \u201cno fault\u201d absentee here, you don\u2019t need a reason like the \u201cold\u201d days.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for those doomsayers who say \u201cthe polls looked this way in 2016 too\u201d:  remember this.  We\u2019ve already had a national election since then.  It was 2018, the year of the \u201cslow motion blue tsunami\u201d in the Congress.   The people \u201cspoke\u201d once already, and they spoke Democrat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So get to work.  Get talking, get persuading, and get folks to vote.  There\u2019s no rest for the wicked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mom\u2019s Saying My London-born mother had an expression, when there was so much to do that it never seemed to get done: \u201cThere\u2019s no rest for the wicked\u201d.  It must have been from her Roman Catholic upbringing, something the nuns would say in school when there was far too much work to do.  That would have been … Continue reading “No Rest”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nNo Rest : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Polling data looks great for Joe Biden. 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