politics today

The way it works is that having kids was a good thing in the past.  A lot of them died before they reached adulthood, and the ones that didn't could help you work the farm or maybe in some sweatshop that employed kids.  Anymore we are not on the farm and most kids reach adulthood, and here in the USA we are generally doing pretty well, and we don't need so many kids so we don't have so many.  Immigrants have come here with lots of kids, but when those kids grow up in a more affluent place than their parents they have fewer kids. 

I suppose we are kind of hypocrites telling South America to keep its forests inviolate when we, here in the USA, have already chopped down ours, but there it is, it's a done deal, and being in the tropics it is a more active lung.  We used to have some kind of deal with those countries where we  paid them to curb that expansion into the rain forest, I believe it was called foreign aid, but lately we don't believe in that sort of thing. 


The moderate wing of the dems wants us to nominate a moderate in hopes of winning over folks like Beagles, but nominating a George Wallace type is a bit too far.  segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.  catchy as it is, is not going to make it in these times though if you put your ear to the ground you can hear something like it from the prez and from his minions.

There was a poll recently that put Biden, Sanders, and Warren in a tie, but two polls on the heels of that one put Biden back in the lead by about ten points.  So far Sanders and Warren have refused to go after each other and there is not so much difference between them except that maybe he is more of a ranter and she a bit more of a sweet talker.  Seems to me that health care is the big issue among the dems.  They generally attribute their success in the 18 elections on hammering that issue,

There are some variations in health care proposals, what is the difference between single payer and medicare for all, for instance?  And should we do away with private insurance?  It seems to me that if the government puts its big foot in private insurance (except for like nose jobs) will eventually whither away.  Seems to me that the media is lax in pointing out the specific differences in the plans, but then politicians tend to like ot keep things fuzzy, and the thing is that these are just things said on the campaign trail, and what will actually get through congress is something else.

I had been thinking that if the dems win the presidency they will also take the senate, but I have been reading articles and looking at the map and I no longer think it is such a sure thing.  There are 22 republican senators but 18 of them are in ruby red states so we only have like four where we have a chance of winning, and can we hold onto the seat in Alabama?

A lot of politics in this post, I will try to think of a story for tomorrow.