A comment made concerning an earlier post said that we might be on the edge of a 1775 moment. That may well be true. I certainly hope we, as a people, have both the endurance and the taste for real liberty that carried that historical moment through for another seven or eight years. I am beginning to believe that we are in the middle of one of those windows of history where a will born of “we have had enough” solidifies for the long fight ahead – or the lack of vision and will from others “swamps” over us. If it is the latter the children of our children may never know the feel of real liberty that our fathers and grandfathers knew so well and passed to us for safeguarding.

But since this seems to be a time for “theories” I will offer yet another possible vision of a Biden/Harris administration and what could become of it. There is a real possibility that we could have more of an 1828 moment.

I’ve been keeping track of some Covid-19 metrics. I’m particularly interested in the percent of new tests that are positive (%+) and the change in the number of hospitalizations. Those metrics indicate that the fall surge of Covid that’s been brewing up since late September might be topping out. The following graphs are based on data from the Covid tracking project. The calculations and graphs (and any errors) are my own.

The red line in the graph below is a seven-day moving average of %+ over the past 60 days. It appears to be forming a top and rolling over. The last three daily data points ( not the moving average) have actually been going down very slightly.

“It was a lousy $1,500!” my dad would exclaim while my brothers and I helped him work on the basement. “All they were asking was a lousy $1,500 to finish this basement and we’d be able to do something more important.”

My parents bought their house in 1960 for $20,000. It was a new raised ranch house in the suburbs and at the margins of what they could afford on a teacher’s salary. The developer said that a finished basement added $1,500 to the final price, but my dad calculated that with two boys growing into dad’s helper’s age, he could finish it over time. He had the skills. His own dad had been an electrician and my dad learned from him the basic construction skills while he worked for him during high school during summers and weekends.

Joe Biden has been pretty open about his plans for the economy. Many appear to be clearly destructive to our economy. Why would someone do that, you might wonder. Allow me to explain…

He plans to forgive $50,000 of student debt for everyone. He skipped over the Constitutional grounds for this action, but his intention is to somehow pay off educational debts of those who borrowed money to pay for college, by taking money from those who didn’t go to college (tradesmen, etc.), and from those who paid for their own college through outdated white privilege microaggressions like working and saving. College-educated people tend to vote Democrat? Well, they should be rewarded. And they will be.

Cities have a problem. Democrat policies like greenspace laws and other regulatory schemes that inflate property values to unaffordable levels, lack of support for law enforcement that encourages rioting and violent crime, insane educational policies that lead to dangerous and inept schools, ever-increasing emphasis on racial grievances which create the resentment and jealousies that maintain tension and hatred between neighbors, and so on, and so on – these have made cities less and less desirable places to live. So people are leaving.

Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. But for Wales?  – A Man for All Seasons (1966)

This is my favorite line in a script filled with jewels. I have always loved the way Paul Scofield delivered that line with such delicate irony. Richard Rich lies to help convict Thomas More and is rewarded with the post of Attorney General for Wales. The clip of that scene can be seen here.