Cacophony

Noise and lament and a throwing up of hands. It’s pretty much what we get anymore. The folks at MS Now can ponder and pontificate, raise their voices, talk over each other in panel discussions when they dare welcome a dissenter to the mix. But in the end, none of the alarm and anger and incensed tones really matter to the Trump administration. All the concern and worry seem to roll off of them, easily dismissed as the rantings of soft, liberal, socialist snowflakes.

Maddow and Psaki can ring the alarm bells, Velshi and Melber and O’Donnell can rationally, if not passionately, expose the lack of a moral compass and outright diabolical intent. But who’s paying attention, besides the choir?

I know I should hold my nose and wade into a Fox News broadcast, just to get a sense for what half the country is absorbing and apparently embracing, but I just can’t bring myself to do that. More often than not, what emanates from their talking heads feels like poison to me, like they live in a totally different place with a vastly different set of core beliefs. Like they’re watching a totally different game.  

The battle for hearts and minds rages on.