Maybe The Only Good Thing About The Pandemic And Insurrection Is No Parade, No Balls, Those Would Only Detract From A Rare Perfect Moment

I am absolutely thrilled that there will not be a friggin' parade as part of Joe Biden's inauguration, I'm even more thrilled that they're not having the half-dozen or more balls and lots of the other crap that should never have become part of our civil ceremonial life.  Who the hell needs all that traditional crap after last night? 

Last night was absolutely the most meaningful thing I've ever seen in relation to inaugurations and I remember back to Kennedy's sixty years ago.  It was one of those rare things that was absolutely perfect, beautiful, simple, understated and for that reason classier than classy.  Anyone who was expecting Joe Biden's administration to be a pale imitation of Obama's or some gaff guaranteed comedy of errors should consider again.   

I think the gaffs were a product of a number of things, the anxiety of someone who has a speech impediment and the knowledge that the corporate media would use that against him, the anxiety I mentioned this morning from having to navigate the mine field of unknowable IEDs Democrats can depend on being there, real and those invented out of nothing.  I think Biden knows that after this he will not need to run another election campaign, he's free of that, he's done with it.  This is the last office he will hold, he can do his job without having to worry about his reelection.  He won't be anxious about being indicted, unlike Trump he doesn't have to wonder which day or hour or minute the papers will be served, the warrant will be issued, the summons to appear with be delivered.  

I'm far more impressed with Biden's nominees than I was with either Obama's or Clinton's  even if the feeling of relief at even a minimal exhibition of competence after the the era of criminal insanity and malfeasance were not our shared experience,  Biden's long experience in the Congress, as Vice President, have given him a far stronger knowledge of things than Barack Obama had.  Raw intellectual brilliance, which both Obama and Clinton had is good but it's not going to match decades of experience on the job.  

I'll be nervous for the next four years but only because I'll be afraid that something will happen to stop Biden from doing the job he intends to do. For the past four years I've been afraid that Trump would do what he intended to and for whatever criminally cruel and insane and merely stupid thing he and his ship of fools and garbage scow of criminals would do.