You may be too young .... but there used to be a show called "Inside the Music" a documentary style show where the life of a musician ... from beginnings, to success, to failures, and finally some ending where there were lessons learned, with some sort of humility.
Everyone in the public sphere tend to follow this rise and fall .... circle of life. The media thrives on this.
I think we all have the same theme in our private lives. I'm struggling to write/complete my autobiography .... but I see the same themes over my lifetime. Humble beginnings, then success-to-failure-to-humility.
Poor Gary Hart. The media to a microscope to his personal life. He deserved better.
We've now come full circle .... Trump, convicted rapist, and a very likely pedophile, gets elected overwhelmingly a second time. I don't get it ..... but it's clearly a consequence of a very divided country.
Hi Scott! I should check out that documentary. Thanks for the recommendation.
You hit the nail on the head with the circle of our lives. I'd recommend checking out 'What it Takes' if you're interested in reading more about Hart along with Biden, Dole, Dukakis, and Bush Sr. It's a hefty thousand pages, but it moves fast.
I also agree that Gary Hart, faults and all, did not deserve to be crucified by a raucous media. Our media class has failed in their civic responsibility to feed their own legacies, and their need to be "the one that broke the story". It's also notable that just four years later, another serial cheater in Bill Clinton overcame these allegations.
To your point on Trump, I think there has been a real want from us on the left to blame Trumpism on one single factor. Was it the Contract with America? The Lewinsky scandal? Iraq + Swiftboat Veterans for Truth? 08? Sarah Palin?
They all play a part, I think. Steve Bannon attributes Trump's rise to the twin flames of the 2008 recession and the Bush failures in the Middle East. Bannon also told Epstein after the 2016 election that "you (Epstein) was the only thing I was worried about before election day". I wonder what that could be about?
To combat this moral degeneracy, I think we on the left need to realize that social issues are not a competition on who can be the most moral--the most right. It's a scourge on our party, and we must rip root and stem. Liberalism fights for liberal ideals, not petty social squabbles. Luckily, the next generation of Democrats, such as myself, will be able to do this. I fight, and will continue to fight.
In the words of LBJ:
"Neither words nor pictures can freeze America on a printed page."
Hi Charlie .....
You may be too young .... but there used to be a show called "Inside the Music" a documentary style show where the life of a musician ... from beginnings, to success, to failures, and finally some ending where there were lessons learned, with some sort of humility.
Everyone in the public sphere tend to follow this rise and fall .... circle of life. The media thrives on this.
I think we all have the same theme in our private lives. I'm struggling to write/complete my autobiography .... but I see the same themes over my lifetime. Humble beginnings, then success-to-failure-to-humility.
Poor Gary Hart. The media to a microscope to his personal life. He deserved better.
We've now come full circle .... Trump, convicted rapist, and a very likely pedophile, gets elected overwhelmingly a second time. I don't get it ..... but it's clearly a consequence of a very divided country.
Scott
Hi Scott! I should check out that documentary. Thanks for the recommendation.
You hit the nail on the head with the circle of our lives. I'd recommend checking out 'What it Takes' if you're interested in reading more about Hart along with Biden, Dole, Dukakis, and Bush Sr. It's a hefty thousand pages, but it moves fast.
I also agree that Gary Hart, faults and all, did not deserve to be crucified by a raucous media. Our media class has failed in their civic responsibility to feed their own legacies, and their need to be "the one that broke the story". It's also notable that just four years later, another serial cheater in Bill Clinton overcame these allegations.
To your point on Trump, I think there has been a real want from us on the left to blame Trumpism on one single factor. Was it the Contract with America? The Lewinsky scandal? Iraq + Swiftboat Veterans for Truth? 08? Sarah Palin?
They all play a part, I think. Steve Bannon attributes Trump's rise to the twin flames of the 2008 recession and the Bush failures in the Middle East. Bannon also told Epstein after the 2016 election that "you (Epstein) was the only thing I was worried about before election day". I wonder what that could be about?
To combat this moral degeneracy, I think we on the left need to realize that social issues are not a competition on who can be the most moral--the most right. It's a scourge on our party, and we must rip root and stem. Liberalism fights for liberal ideals, not petty social squabbles. Luckily, the next generation of Democrats, such as myself, will be able to do this. I fight, and will continue to fight.
In the words of LBJ:
"Neither words nor pictures can freeze America on a printed page."