"The fall is ultimately America's best season."
See now, when you state it like that, it's rather heartening. America's current decline and decay can rather beautiful -- and quite natural.* To every thing, there is a season. . .
Look, I’m not gonna speak in sweeping generalizations. Some parts of the country have lovely summers, with friends and noodle salad down by the lake. But summer in DC is evil. And I’m glad it officially dies today. Meanwhile, the fall is ultimately America’s best season.
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*Not really kidding, or cheering this one, just observing the decline. Jonah Goldberg and I are both post-Boomers, we weren't raised by Boomers either. Douglas Coupland tagged those born in our times Gen X, (mid 60s to early 80s).
In our times, America has always been slowly settling back from its peak as WWII victor and winner of the world, to figuring out how to be just a regular guy on the world's block, affluent and a leader sure, but one of many, not always the dominant leading player when we're not best suited to serve in that role...
I only speak for myself, but I don't fear this period in America's timeline. There's work to do, and the people now in charge will turn over the torch in time, and what we ... "inherit" be less overall than those gifts given to the Boomers. Ideally, this is better because by making the playing field even a bit more level, we'd like to think those leading us have actually earned their way up, not networked, cheated, or bought their way in...
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Further musings: I don't think generational attitudes necessarily can be broken down by timeline, so much as lifestyle though. Independence factor.
Guys like Hunter Biden? They're not GenX, as their survival owes to the attachment to the host body that nourishes them, of an earlier generation. They're not an independent life form really. Something like a barnacle, that will be scraped off in time. I do think those comments of his to his attorney, the racial ones, coupled with more and more of his laptop memory leaking out, plus the non-due process treatment of the Haitians who have crossed the American border, will lose his father's party -- if it hasn't already -- the working black vote. Blacks in non-White liberal society are realists: there's clearly no cavalry coming...
The Congress -- they had it, and held it -- is proving fickle in paying back their promises to the voters who gave the Dems the presidency and both branches. They are so unused to really working, they can't get the job done on time, ever it seems.
Button up your overcoats then... I think it is going to be a long hard winter in this country, and take care: you might even feel it, the bitter cold, in D.C. too this year.
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