{"id":175878,"date":"2020-11-04T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/04\/this-is-a-metaphor-for-something\/"},"modified":"2020-11-04T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:51:00","slug":"this-is-a-metaphor-for-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/04\/this-is-a-metaphor-for-something\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Metaphor for Something\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

In North Dakota, the uncool Dakota, a dead man won a seat in the state house<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Honestly, if there is a better metaphor for the incompetent Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment), I have not seen it: <\/p>\n

David Andahl died of covid-19 in early October, just as the coronavirus<\/a> was pummeling his home state of North Dakota. But that did not keep the 55-year-old rancher from winning his race for the state House of Representatives on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

With an apparent victory<\/a> in North Dakota\u2019s 8th District, Andahl\u2019s election marks an unusual overlap between two of the most consequential events in the United States this year: a pandemic that has killed at least 232,000 people<\/a> in the United States and the unprecedented election season it upended in the process.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

A cattle rancher and land developer, Andahl had spent 16 years serving on the zoning and planning commission in Burleigh County, including eight years as its chair, according to<\/a> the Bismarck Tribune. Earlier this year, he won a heated GOP primary against longtime state Rep. Jeff Delzer, who chaired the chamber\u2019s powerful Appropriations Committee.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

When the coronavirus reached North Dakota, Andahl \u2014 who was already grappling with several health issues \u2014 was \u201cvery cautious,\u201d his family wrote on Facebook<\/a>. They did not elaborate on what medical challenges he was facing.<\/p>\n

As the largely rural state saw a sharp increase in coronavirus cases this fall \u2014 at one point leading the country in the number of new cases per capita \u2014 Andahl contracted the potentially deadly virus. After four days in the hospital, he died Oct. 5.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a> The Democratic Party lost to a dead man, and right now, it’s still not settled in the Presidential campaign when they are running against a man whose brain serves only as a launch pad for his hair.  <\/p>\n

The current Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) is incredibly, and ineluctably, incompetent.<\/p>\n

We cold fire them all and replace them with drinking bird toys, and get better results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In North Dakota, the uncool Dakota, a dead man won a seat in the state house. Honestly, if there is a better metaphor for the incompetent Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment), I have not seen it: David Andahl died of covid-19 in early October, just as the coronavirus was pummeling his …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,588,578,406],"class_list":["post-175878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-fail","tag-incompetence","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}