The Times They Are A-Changing

This is the yard down the street from me.  My neighborhood is covered in Harris/Walz signs.  Not a Trump sign to be seen.  I don't see many Trump signs in town at all.  It is enough to make you think a certain way.  If I drive out of town, however, it is another story.  

I've asked my friends to quit sending me political memes, opinions, and sarcasms.  What good do they think it is doing?  Back in the days before the internet, sure, door to door canvasing was the only way to get out a message.  Signs were important.  But now?  I guess it is just a point of pride, or, like the constant text messages, pride in being irritating.  

I think Trump is going to win.  I think that identity politics, gender fluidity, and Woke ideologies have driven many moderates to the right.  "Liberals" are now demonized by the far left.  They are a shrinking class just as is the idea of a "liberal education" in the universities.  Dylan was right--the times they are a changing.  

Dylan was quite the capitalist.  

If Harris loses, I blame Megan Thee Stallion.  WTF?

I guess I should recall, however, that Jimmy Carter embraced Bob Dylan and won.  

My college roommate, a political scientist and a card carrying member, says Harris is going to win.  But he is the one person in America who cost Gore a win in Florida and the presidency.  He told everyone to vote for Nader.  He had enough political sway to swing that election.  

It won't be close in Florida this year.  

The weather is nice.  Bro culture will be playing golf and watching football.  They are confident about the outcome.  

I think I'll take a long walk.  They say it is good for one.  

We change the clocks tomorrow to the correct time, when the sun is at its zenith in the sky at noon.  It is the natural time when people's circadian rhythms are synched with the solar cycle.  But we keep making DST longer and longer. . . and people weirder and more disordered.  Maybe that is what  is wrong with the world.  Maybe it was an intentional weaponization of the clocks.  

It's just science.  

People are tired of science, though.  There is just too much of it anymore.  Whatever you like to do is probably bad for you.  It's easier to roll the bones, get an astrological reading. . . look to the Tarot.  

Gypsies lived outside the law.  Don't call them Gypsies.  They are Roma.  

I think I'll become a Gypsy.