On Our "Virtual Route 99" (Special Month End Edition): On the Month That Was
Here is a Month End Snapshot of our World courtesy our Media Partners, including Crooked Media , The Economist and the Coop Scoop: After spending five glorious weeks in Chile ’s sunny southern hemisphere summer, I’ve returned home to SW Washington where it is raining and dipping into the 30s at night. That I can live with. What unnerves me is the feeling that I have been immediately plunged back into a whirling cesspool of political excrement, in a country where there’s a new piece of shockingly bad news by the hour, and when the future of the republic still hangs precariously in the balance over the next three years. And mind you, I’m coming back from Chile where an extreme right winger and admirer of Pinochet will take the presidential chair a month from now, and yet there is a serene placidity and lack of craziness there of the sort we are plagued with here. A lot of people don’t like president-elect Jose Antonio Kast but nobody is talking about the destruction of the democratic o...
