This week’s Virginia Elections demonstrate two somewhat different decisions we members of the Commonwealth have to consider.
The first one, that is for Governor is more straightforward. One only had to suffer thru the “Debate” to comprehend that the loser is the one who had to obstruct their opponent from even being heard by yelling over her because she would so obviously LOSE any well-moderated discussion amongst mature adults. This technique of the G.O.P. (Greed Oiled Party) is exactly the one practiced by Donald, the Chump every time he lowers the level of public discourse by showing up and acting like a six-year-old without manners. The Virginia Bar Association should catch up to the 20th Century technology that allows a microphone to be TURNED OFF when a participant cannot follow stated rules.
The extremist MAGA perversion of what used to be the Republican Party and has now degenerated into the “Cult of the Chump” requires all their candidates to check their brains at the door and merely kowtow to the “Fearless Leader”’s inane racist, sexist, fascist drivel which degrades every week as his Alzheimers’ disease robs him of what little intellect he ever had. So, basically one should replace all their candidates with a “mini-me” version of the destroyer of Jeffersonian democracy (who of late has taken to literally destroying the People’s House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The second (or third, given the Lt. Governor choice parallels the Gubernatorial one) presents an apparently more thought-provoking decision, but perhaps not truly on logical consideration.
Mr. Jones’ emotional outburst so widely reported is, as he has noted a moment of dark reaction he never should have voiced. The truth however, is that his was a failure of wisdom wholly within the realm of fantasy/thought. His opponent, Mr Miyares on the other hand thru his support for the current regime’s “extra-judicial killings” of 60 supposed drug runners is a much more culpable action in failing to critique the absence of any legal Constitutional DUE PROCESS which a Virginia Attorney General should be upholding. Particularly when one of the alleged “drug boats” (about the size of a speed boat) was carrying 11 human beings ! Drug running maximizes the weight of the contraband and minimizes any extraneous weight like of people. That boat if not another one or two were almost certainly ferrying migrants, not fentanyl (which doesn’t come here from that route anyway).
As a graduate of Mr. Jefferson’s University (’76) I would encourage all my native-born fellow Virginians (& any naturalized Immigrants like my Great-great grandfather from Frankfurt) to recall his NO KINGS Declaration of Independence and, indeed the statement on our commonwealth flag regarding how Tyrants should be dealt with (at the Polls, whenever possible I might add).
Dr Steven Dwight Ferber, Ph.D. Chemist, Howard University ’05/’06
B.S. Chemist, University of Virginia ’76
“A.B.D.“ studies in Physical Chemistry, U of Minnesota ’76-’81
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Arlington, Virginia 22207
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