"Send in the Clowns... Don't Bother; They're Here."

 Can we be honest? Despite the overwhelming media coverage of his death, at best 15 percent of Americans could name one Sondheim song or musical.  The white cultural elites who revere him are waaaay overrepresented in our national news media 

We choose to focus on the trivial of late, ignoring the pressing problems the former president was grappling with (economy, borders, covid, crime, race/economic-class relations), and giving old Joe a pass because ... to the media, he's "our" old Joe, a well-known nothing. Non threatening, safe in a dumb-as-hell way... 

Like good old-fashioned American comfort food, the Dems sold the media, and the primary voters, on the idea of Biden as a palatable substitute to Donald Trump's vision of peaceful political regime change. Donald Trump led the charge to remove the Clintons and Obamas, the Bushes and Cheneys -- and aalll their protected cronies from the criminal to the merely ethically challenged, the rapists and the war profiteers, including  many in the military --from power and pulled us through the stagnating war years in America, whose world wide effects will be felt for years.. never forget.

All without firing a shot.  Trump voters took up Obama's failed mandate of creating Change in Washington DC and put some bite and backbone into a passel of pretty words.  The media woke up when Trump won, and suddenly started seeing people... the American people. Eighty-five percent of whom simply don't know Sondheim.  (He wasn't exactly a cultural crossover talent, nttawwt, like a Rogers or Hammerstein whose work crosses cultural barriers... Sondheim performed primarily for the White Elite. East Coast elites, nttawwt. You're just not the majority and should stop pretending your choices ... represent.  Minorities miss a lot that way, misunderstanding.)/

You know who else falls in that category?  Someone the media loves but the public really doesn't? Dr. Anthony Fauci.

More than 85 percent of the country would currently cast a "no confidence" vote in his leadership. His work is not impressive -- a fresh leader to usher a retiring Anthony out would be a wise move ...

This one is too involved in what came before -- the gain of function tests America was, wittingly or not, helping to fund in that Wuhan lab.  He's too tied in, at this point, to be fully trusted.  Why not a fresh face, ethically unencumbered by America's pandemic missteps in past years?

An aging Anthony Fauci is really the best our country has to offer? That's like holding your nose and voting Biden, because the entrenched Dem establishment in Washington -- protected by their media enablers -- can't yet read the words on the wall that are likely visible to more than 85 percent of us out here operating in reality:

America has changed. Your time is up. You've got to go, move on, stop crippling the country with the helpful policies formulated by your non-profit and multi-million dollar think tanks.

President Lincoln had to change his generals many times before he found one who would and could fight, and win.  If the Dems cross their fingers and stick with the polarizing Tony Fauci as a national leader, that tells you a lot about their plan for national unity and vision for the future.

They are afraid of change, big c or small. If they are unwilling to shape the future -- and think they can just keep printing money and tossing it about buying suburban/lady votes, I've got a Sondheim song to sing ya:

"Send in the clowns... There ought to be clowns... Don't bother: they're here..."