Some Sunday Whatever

 This author isn't saying anything new.  Authoritarian "thinking" has been a part of this country since its beginnings, and that includes the religious whack jobs.  You can explain them and their "thinking" all you want--and they are NOT "conservative--but nothing can be done about them.  They are lost.

Democrats don't need them and don't want them.  There are millions and millions of people who don't vote--those and current Democratic voters and independents are where it is at.

"Conservative" voters have to die out.

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I was out of town on vacation last week with little internet access and didn't hear about the death of Alan Greenspan, who was a Randian type, literally a disciple of hers when he was young all those many decades ago, but he somehow secured a spot as the head of the Fed for many years.  He died so young, only 100 years old.  He died on the 22nd of June, while I was in the Mount Hood area going on enjoyable hikes to know about it.

He had been married since the late 1990s to broadcast journalist Andrea Mitchell.

Greenspan proved right the old saying, "The good die young."  Kind of like Henry Kissinger, who also had made it to the century mark.

Snip:

Greenspan was born March 6, 1926, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, where he showed mathematical acumen from a young age. In his early years, he attended the Juilliard School and played jazz saxophone and clarinet in a band.

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This part was unintentionally hilarious:

“Ayn Rand and I remained close until she died in 1982, and I’m grateful for the influence she had on my life. I was intellectually limited until I met her,” Greenspan wrote in “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World.”

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That doesn't say much for his "intellect" to follow somebody who clearly had a personality disorder or perhaps even a form of autism.  She never played with a full deck.  At least Greenspan didn't become a boy toy for her, thank God.

Andrea Mitchell did note her husband continued to love jazz and was a diehard baseball fan, so Alan did have a few virtues besides the "virtue of selfishness."

Alan Greenspan died from Parkinson's disease.

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