Not up to writing so here’s Ron’s latest rant.

Leftistas! Clintonistas! Warrenistas! Extremists who judge their political enemies by past activities while blithely forgetting that they have pasts of their own. Masters of the “Nothing to see here; Move along” approach to scandal when they’re in the catbird seat but “We demand a Congressional hearing and an FBI investigation” when the other party is involved. Hypocrisy incarnate.

Trump’s election didn’t generate the rancor and false indignation and malevolence we see every time we watch the news . . . it merely exposed it all.

The guy gives a Reaganesque speech which was extremely well received by more than seventy-five percent of the American people, including many centrist liberals and reasonable Democrats. But then the corrupt, biased, slowly sinking, publish-or-perish press with its permanent port list cancels it all out with its “Look! A squirrel!” conspiracy myth about Sessions and some kind of communist plot.

A fair and independent free press was included in the First Amendment for good reason. It’s a necessary feature of a democratic republic, rather like a conscience or a confessional.

But if your conscience is polluted, or if your confessor is corrupt, you’ll very likely be looking up the wrong end of a large, hairy, dirty animal. When media in a two-party system becomes the propaganda instrument for one party at the expense of the other, it’s like having a mafioso for a priest or a junky for a mother.

And if your mother is a junky, you’ll always be looking up that hairy beast’s backside until she detoxifies herself. And if your conscience is like a made guy who does one day of prayer and six days of sin, you’re in a no-win situation unless you’re the don or a wise guy yourself.

The left simply cannot allow news stories, especially by conservatives, to get air time or news space unless they dovetail nicely with their own agenda. I’m not anti-left. In fact, I’d rather not live in a society where everybody thinks the same, talks the same, votes the same, dresses the same, and does the same things all the time. Boring. Viva la difference.

What I am is anti-phony. What pisses me off most about entrenched politicians is not so much their being completely out of touch most of the time but their single-minded focus on the what’s good for their PARTY instead of what’s good for the NATION.

They quickly lose touch of the fact that they’re just employees, and temporary ones at that. National politics was never envisioned by the founders to be a career; it was seen as a patriotic service. A healthy two-party system ensures meaningful debate on controversial or unsavory issues, but it doesn’t necessarily mean winner takes all and loser gets the dried-up teat.

The bottom line, of course, is that it makes no difference who hacked whose e-mails. An old political axiom is that if you want to know more about your family history but don’t want to spend a bunch of money researching it, just run for high public office and your opponent will do it for you.

Dammit, if you don’t want your corruption dredged up and splashed all over the 6 o’clock news, don’t be corrupt in the first place, moron. Sheeesh! When I consider the bizarre and batty comments from high-placed people such as Waters, Pelosi, Lee, Warren, and others like them, it’s easy to understand the old quaint custom of witchburning.

I still don’t know exactly what the Schumers and Pelosis and Frankens expect to gain by delegitimizing Trump and shutting down his administration. Do they expect a grassroots insurrection and popular demand to negate the election results and install HRC as PotUS by acclamation? The two-faced potty-mouthed congenital liar who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong and helped a halfrican demolish our diplomatic and intelligence apparatus throughout the known world?

Beats me. But it seems to me that the left is going retro these days. They finally got it through their heads that the race card is frayed and worn out, so now when they can’t logically counter someone else’s argument, instead of calling him a racist they call him a communist.

Goebbels would be SO proud.