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JVC equalizer and, when it came around, a Pioneer multi-disc CD player.&nbsp;&nbsp;I had a great system\u2026that today is completely out of date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Choose My Music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Music isn\u2019t \u201canalog\u201d anymore.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sure, I still have most of the electronics, carefully stacked in the garage.&nbsp;&nbsp;I can\u2019t bear to get rid of them.&nbsp;&nbsp;And there are 200 or more record albums holding down the bottom of the cabinet (even \u201cMeet the Beatles\u201d), underneath the new turntable (audio-technica) I bought during Covid.&nbsp;&nbsp;But today\u2019s music is digital.&nbsp;&nbsp;When I want to listen to CSNY (never been a \u201cFloyd\u201d guy) I pull it up on Sonos, with wireless speakers spread throughout the house.&nbsp;&nbsp;Or if I want to listen to Joni Mitchell, Jenn\u2019s least favorite folk singer, I can dial it up on Sonos for \u201cjust\u201d my office, and play something else in the rest of the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Since the 1970\u2019s a lot has changed.&nbsp;&nbsp;And some of the things we cherished most, like that stereo system, are obsolete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" data-attachment-id=\"8032\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/obsolete\/img_5818\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5818-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 13 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He is a proud \u201cindependent\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI want the politicians I vote for to work together, regardless of their party, so I vote for the \u2018person\u2019, not the party,\u201d was his comment.\u00a0\u00a0I admire the sentiment.\u00a0\u00a0But in our current era, he\u2019s about as relevant as my stereo system, as up-to-date as my Technics dual cassette player.\u00a0\u00a0He has an \u201canalog\u201d view of American politics, left behind by our current \u201cdigital\u201d world.\u00a0\u00a0And he\u2019s dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Just like my nearly half-century old stereo system, he\u2019s living in a world that doesn\u2019t exist anymore.&nbsp;&nbsp;We all know the old story:&nbsp;&nbsp;arch-conservative Republican President Ronald Reagan and moderate Democrat Speaker of the House Tip O\u2019Neil working together for the \u201cgood\u201d of America.&nbsp;&nbsp;And when we voted for a candidate back then, like Ohio\u2019s John Glenn for Senate (Democrat) or Missouri\u2019s John Danforth (Republican), we absolutely expected them to work together on a lot of issues.&nbsp;&nbsp;We knew one thing for sure about them:&nbsp;&nbsp;they were men of \u201chonor\u201d, who would stand for what they believed even if it was against their own party, and maybe their own political interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And they started to become obsolete about the time I bought my multi-CD player, in the 1990\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mavericks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Today the \u201cmaverick\u201d politicians are exiled from their parties, and the government.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thom Tillis of North Carolina \u201cchooses\u201d not to run for re-election, because even he can\u2019t stomach MAGA-ism.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the two \u201cmaverick\u201d Democrats in the Senate, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, left in 2024, rather than face defeat at the polls.&nbsp;&nbsp;You might be \u201csad\u201d that the mavericks are gone.  But Joe Manchin prevented a lot of the Democratic reforms that might have stopped the second Trump Administration.&nbsp;&nbsp;And Tillis is another in a long line of Republicans who couldn\u2019t stand up to the MAGA world.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">So what\u2019s left?&nbsp;&nbsp;You can choose:&nbsp;&nbsp;MAGA Republican, or Democrat.&nbsp;&nbsp;And Democrats are still a \u201cbig tent\u201d party. They include moderates like Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky, and Social-Democrats like good old Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.&nbsp;&nbsp;But what you can\u2019t do anymore is \u201cvote for the \u2018man\u2019&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">First of all, it\u2019s not \u201cmen only\u201d anymore.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some of the most effective politicians in the nation are women and minorities.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, more importantly, there really is no such thing as \u201cindependence\u201d in our political world.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you vote for a Republican, you are voting for a MAGA-supporter.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you vote for a Democrat, you are voting against MAGA.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s really as simple, and as important, as that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Digital World<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Maybe, someday, we\u2019ll get back to a government of individuals, choosing what\u2019s best for the nation based on their own principles and beliefs.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But right now, THE LABEL IS THE CHOICE.&nbsp;&nbsp;Looking for an Independent is really looking for someone who will have no say in what our government will become.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The issues of today are too important for \u201cunicorns\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;We need to \u201csign-up\u201d,&nbsp;&nbsp;and join together to make changes.&nbsp;&nbsp;Declaring independence is abrogating responsibility for the anti-democratic actions of our Nation. And it&#8217;s giving away the future of the Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s like plugging the turntable into a digital sound system.&nbsp;&nbsp;It just doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorm Wars I turned twenty-one in 1977 during my senior year of college.&nbsp;&nbsp;I lived at Denison University in a dorm full of guys, and the envy of the whole dorm was \u201cMario\u201d, who owned the biggest, baddest, stereo system around.&nbsp;When he decided that the whole dorm was going to listen to \u201cDark Side of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/obsolete\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obsolete&#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-8026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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