Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On?”, 1971: “Mother, Mother/ There’s too many of you crying/ Brother, brother, brother/ There’s far too many of you dying/ You know we’ve got to find a way/ To bring some lovin’ here today…”
2026: Candice Owens and Hunter Biden agree that there is a vast surveillance network in the federal investigation units and the courts that is gathering data on us and ready to use it to intimidate us if we get out of line. Gavin Newsom and Tucker Carlson agree that the present administration and his advisors have betrayed MAGA in favor of lining their own pockets with billions of dollars in graft. Don Lemon and Nick Fuetes agree that both parties are beyond hope and should be burnt to the ground so that new parties which care about their constituents may emerge from the ashes. When opposites attract…
“Father, father/ We don’t need to escalate/ You see, war is not the answer/ For only love can conquer hate…”
Hardy County primary election results: 70% of registered voters did not show up; while 32% of Republican voters came to the polls, 44% of Democratic voters voiced their interest. Roughly, 1,300 Republicans to 1,000 Democrats, even though the registration is 2:1 for each party respectively.
“Picket lines and picket signs/ Don’t punish me with brutality/ Talk to me/ So you can see/ Oh, what’s going on…”
In the federal races, while Senator Capito may have secured her nomination, of the 1,300 Hardy County Republicans who could have voted for her, only 830 did, and 300 voted for two of her opponents, leaving about 170 who left that line blank. Representative Moore, running unopposed, only had 895 votes in the county. That means about 400 Republicans did not vote for him. When our two incumbent Republican candidates have folks leaving that race blank, what’s going on?
I expect that the party leaders will be assessing the situation for the November general election.
As for me?
Larry Norman, “The Great American Novel”, 1972: “Don’t ask me for the answers/ I only have one/ A man leaves his darkness/ When he follows the Son.”
Oscar Larson
Baker
