Alan S. Austin
Arizona Playwright • Writer • Poet
  

WHY DO I WATCH FOX NEWS? (5/10)

What does a reasonably rational person do in Arizona? We have a mad-cap governor out in left field checking to see if the border's still there. He hides down a rabbit hole if you dare mention the number of COVID deaths during his Governorship. Then we have the ninja vote counting farce where the qualification for employment seems to have been extremist political views. The whole process was called for by a supposedly intelligent woman from Prescott, a well-known haven of die-hard Trump supporters who don't trust any voting system if it elects Democrats. The villain of the piece, plotting away in his summer dacha by the Atlantic Ocean is a hare-brained ex-President still decked in his royal mantle of Presidency and still supported by a coterie of Republican politicians determined to tell the ex-President that nobody will take away his toys, that his clothes are absolutely perfect and dismissing one of their own who dared to suggest that he was in his underwear. And so it goes on. Every time I think I might wake up to a sane, well-governed country moving confidently to solve its domestic and foreign problems, I turn on Fox News which reminds me I am still in the madhouse.