{"id":882,"date":"2018-05-29T17:27:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T21:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=882"},"modified":"2018-05-29T17:27:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T21:27:02","slug":"fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2018\/05\/29\/fools\/","title":{"rendered":"Fools?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fools?<\/p>\n

You may fool all the people some of the time; \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

You can even fool some of the people all the time; <\/em><\/p>\n

But you can\u2019t fool all of the people all the time<\/em><\/p>\n

(attributed to Abraham Lincoln, 1858)<\/em><\/p>\n

I live in Pataskala, Ohio.\u00a0 It\u2019s a suburban town, twenty miles east of downtown Columbus.\u00a0 When I moved here in 1978, it was just changing from farm town to bedroom community.\u00a0 The grain elevator still stands but hasn\u2019t been used for years.\u00a0 The railroad tracks still run through town, but the sidings used to load farm products have been torn up; the loading area is now a Veterans memorial.\u00a0 McDonalds, Subway, Tim Horton\u2019s and Taco Bell line Broad Street where the farm equipment used to be stored.<\/p>\n

Gas prices today are $2.87\/gallon, up fifty cents from last year.\u00a0In Pataskala that\u2019s a big deal, since there is no public transportation, the buses to Columbus stopped running in the 1980\u2019s.\u00a0 Everyone has to drive to go anywhere; dramatic rises in gas prices hit fast and hard.<\/p>\n

Health insurance\u00a0<\/a>has increased by five percent since last year.\u00a0 Unemployment is down, from 5.1% to 4.3%, but the average wage hasn\u2019t changed.\u00a0 The \u201ctax cut cut\u201d has incrementally increased some paychecks, but the continuing price increases have more than offset that savings.\u00a0And most folks here in Pataskala are working hard, overtime, extra, with second jobs; all to make ends meet.<\/p>\n

They see that \u201cFortune 500\u201d companies are saying that pay increases are over. \u00a0They read about the Harley Davidson plant in Kansas City, cutting back and laying off workers.\u00a0 They know the Carrier Plant in Indiana that became a Trump campaign prop, is losing the jobs he promised.\u00a0 They hear the President call for a 25% tariff on cars made in Mexico, and taxes on steel and products from China and elsewhere in the world.\u00a0 They understand that those costs will end up as their burden.<\/p>\n

And those same folks are seeing an America they don\u2019t like.\u00a0 They aren’t Americans that rip children from their mother\u2019s arms, regardless of their immigration status.\u00a0 They don\u2019t see an America that is cruel, to the poor or disabled or addicted.\u00a0 These are the same kind of Americans that brought those boats to Houston to help save families from the flood, without regard for the differences.\u00a0 They are Americans that supports their neighbors, their schools, and their towns without a whole lot of regard for race, gender, or all of the other labels.<\/p>\n

Pataskala was \u201cTrump Country.\u201d \u00a0The city voted 60% for Trump, and 33% for Clinton.\u00a0 And while there are still many that support the President, after the election most went back to work and worried more about kids, homes, and jobs. \u00a0\u00a0They stopped worrying about what went on in Washington.\u00a0 They still are hard at work; but they recognize that the changes that were promised, from \u201cdraining the swamp\u201d to the \u201cbooming economy\u201d doesn\u2019t include them.\u00a0 They won\u2019t admit it publicly, and they might not even say so in polling.\u00a0 But they know what’s going on.<\/p>\n

Chet Huntley, the NBC news anchor from the 1960\u2019s\u00a0 (\u201cGoodnight Chet, Goodnight David, and Goodnight from NBC News\u201d) in his farewell from the Nightly News said, \u201c\u2026This land contains an incredible quality and quantity of good common sense\u2026\u201d He was talking about places like Pataskala, Ohio, where folks might for a while be misled by the promises and schemes of politicians, but quickly will return to the \u201cgood common sense\u201d that is the bedrock of their lives.<\/p>\n

That common sense will also apply to whatever Robert Mueller reveals at the conclusion of his investigation.\u00a0\u00a0 Common sense:\u00a0 if what the President did is \u201cclear-cut wrong\u201d then they will recognize it.\u00a0 All of the words and maneuvers of today won\u2019t mean much.\u00a0Common sense will.<\/p>\n

There is a kind of panic growing in the opposition to President Trump.\u00a0That feeling is fueled by the \u201casymmetric\u201d attack on Special Counsel Mueller; all they hear is the attacks without answers.\u00a0 Mueller and his team are keeping their \u201cheads down\u201d and doing their job.\u00a0 When it\u2019s time for them to indict and try, they will make their case.\u00a0 The Mueller team knows that common sense will win out.<\/p>\n

So for those who feel panicked; who worry that \u201cthe truth\u201d will be \u201crelative\u201d when it arrives (thanks to Mr. Giuliani), know this:\u00a0 whether Lincoln really said it or not, you really, \u00a0\u201ccan\u2019t fool all the people, all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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