Raindrops on Roses and Whiskas on Kittens

Most normal people miss, “Raindrops on roses and Whiskas on kittens…” Not me. Instead, I miss the good ole days of Frank Church, Cecil Andrus, and when Idaho Spuds could see. Now days, Spuds voted in a lieutenant governor, Janice McGeachin, who is so ignorant of history that she confuses Benedict Arnold with Paul Revere. McGeachin among other things, is an embarrassment to the few Good Spuds of Idaho and our nation. She appeared in a video defying her own boss, Governor Brad Little, slamming Covid rules, and whether a pandemic may or may not actually be occurring. According to Jan Baby, in essence, we don’t need no stinking masks.

McGeachin illustrates why Idaho ranked the 7th lowest state at 36.11% vaccination percentage. Currently, there are 14 states below 40%, 13 of which went red in 2020 (save Georgia). Eight of those 13 being officially southern states (Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, West Virginia, Oklahoma, and South Carolina). Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, North Dakota, and Missouri are the five remaining red states not officially part of the Good Ole Boy Bible Belt. Of those eight southern states, five (Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and South Carolina) had valid Jim Crow laws on the books into the 1960s.

Is Idaho guilty by association with these other 13 red states that prefer living in the Dark Ages as opposed to the 21^st century? Doubtful. But they do have some commonalities. For example, a majority of the people of these 14 states apparently believe that their own death or the death of someone innocent due to Covid is preferable to the horrendous inconvenience of masking up or missing a wife swap or toga party. These are the same people who believe that blood-letting and the combustion engine represent cutting edge science. Seems almost laughable, doesn’t it?  But something that isn’t so hardy, har, har, is the fact that these states (including Georgia), because of their ignorance, stupidity, greed, insensitivity, and selfishness, are retarding the efforts of the remaining 38 (including District of Columbia) to rid the country of the Covid curse, once and for all.

In my humble opinion, we can no longer afford to attempt to placate a large contingent of our citizenry who have absolutely no intention of improving their lot and ours together. Compromise is a word only to be spoken behind closed doors, by candlelight, and after midnight, long after the children are tucked into bed, dreaming of cows jumping over moons. To suggest compromise openly is to risk death by stoning or crucifixion. Or worse yet, banishment of your dugout canoe to the edge of the Earth.