{"id":5613,"date":"2022-06-08T06:48:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T10:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2023-07-13T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:23:55","slug":"the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2022\/06\/08\/the-list\/","title":{"rendered":"The List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crisis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We are a nation in crisis.&nbsp;&nbsp;Look at the list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>January 6<sup>th<\/sup><\/li><li>Inflation\u00a0<\/li><li>Ukraine<\/li><li>Baby Formula<\/li><li>Guns \u2013 Guns \u2013 Guns<\/li><li>Roe v Wade<\/li><li>Policing and Crime.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh and there\u2019s still the Covid 19 virus around.&nbsp;&nbsp;Over 1,033,000 deaths since the beginning, and still averaging 320 deaths a day.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s almost as many people as get shot with a gun per day here in the US (321 daily), with 111 deaths.&nbsp;&nbsp;More young people (children and adolescents) die from gun violence than any other cause including car accidents.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s far above disease, poisoning and drug overdoses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add China, the Southern Border, LGBTQ rights, and a host of other issues, and you can see why most US Presidents age quickly.&nbsp;&nbsp;President Biden has more than just a few things on his plate.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With all of that, the hope is that the American people will vote for solutions, not slogans.&nbsp;&nbsp;The question that needs to be asked in the November election, is how the candidates are going to make things better, not what \u201cwedge\u201d they can drive into the body politic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Issues<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>January 6<sup>th<\/sup>, the Insurrection, is not behind us.&nbsp;&nbsp;The forces at work to overthrow our Democracy remain at large, and, in fact, they are still working to achieve their goal.&nbsp;&nbsp;Until we have an accounting of what really happened and why, we won\u2019t \u201cget over\u201d it.&nbsp;&nbsp;In fact, those demanding we ignore it, are simply enabling those who see Democracy as an impediment to their gaining power.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation is bad, because it strikes us all.&nbsp;&nbsp;Gas went over $5 a gallon yesterday here in Central Ohio; groceries are up, in fact, everything that \u201cgot here\u201d costs more because it cost more to \u201cget here\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;If the cost of gas is the fault of the Ukraine War, then Americans should and will bear the burden.&nbsp;&nbsp;But that case isn\u2019t clearly made by anybody, not by the President, nor the Congress, nor the \u201cpundits\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the baby formula crisis seemed to come, literally, out of nowhere.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s being resolved, but that message isn\u2019t getting through either.&nbsp;&nbsp;What should be a triumph of government intervention and ingenuity, is portrayed as a \u201cfumble\u201d in government prevention.&nbsp;&nbsp;And all because a plant put out contaminated product, and that plant provided a huge portion of the supply of formula.&nbsp;&nbsp;That also is a case of \u201cbad\u201d messaging by the current administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guns-Guns-Guns<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>America is cursed;&nbsp;&nbsp;cursed with a history of gun use, exacerbated by a political crisis where a portion of the nation see unlimited gun rights as a sign of unlimited freedom.&nbsp;&nbsp;What they give up is their right to \u201clife\u201d, or more exactly, as the statistics show, their children\u2019s right to life.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the worst public health crisis of our era, worse than Covid 19.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, just like Covid masks, guns are so politicized that even common sense doesn\u2019t prevail.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\u2019t drink until your twenty-one, you can\u2019t rent a car until your twenty-five, you can\u2019t even own a pistol until your twenty-one.&nbsp;&nbsp;But you can buy an assault type rifle at eighteen.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s just the age where disaffected, mentally unstable young men, look to become \u201cheroes\u201d on the trigger of a gun.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are simple solutions, but even those are embroiled in the political theatre created by the gun lobby and the right wing politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cars don\u2019t kill people, people driving cars kill people.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet we regulate every facet of car ownership, from the purchase, registration and sale of the vehicle, to the training, licensing a and supervising of the drivers.&nbsp;&nbsp;But an assault rifle; its only use being for protection or destruction, is virtually unregulated, unlicensed, and unchecked.&nbsp;&nbsp;What sense does that make?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Choices<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Our nation is at an inflection point.&nbsp;&nbsp;We have one political party that sees America as it was in the 1950\u2019s, a white majority in charge, a \u201cLeave it to Beaver\u201d utopia, that never really existed.&nbsp;&nbsp;The leadership of that party is willing to sacrifice our greatest virtue, Democracy, in order to gain power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we have one political party, fumbling, brawling, unfocused, charging in multiple directions; that at least has a vision of a future that includes a diverse Democratic society.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is the choice that faces America in 2022 and 2024.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s really that simple.&nbsp;&nbsp;And it\u2019s really that desperate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crisis We are a nation in crisis.&nbsp;&nbsp;Look at the list: January 6th Inflation\u00a0 Ukraine Baby Formula Guns \u2013 Guns \u2013 Guns Roe v Wade Policing and Crime. Oh and there\u2019s still the Covid 19 virus around.&nbsp;&nbsp;Over 1,033,000 deaths since the beginning, and still averaging 320 deaths a day.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s almost as many people as get shot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2022\/06\/08\/the-list\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The List&#8221;<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The List : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"America is faced with a desperate choice. 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