You know… when a song’s in your mind, a melody or some words you’re recalling, for some reason.
The other day, I remembered the words – I just don’t understand – in this lyric in an old song from the ‘60s:
Well you say that you need me like an ocean needs sand, but the way you deceive me I just don’t understand.
I began thinking about these increasingly crazy moments in time, wondering if farmers, here in America, just don’t understand their President proclaiming his strong commitment to them, while his administration’s trade war seems to be mucking things up, about as much as a nasty corn leaf blight. Demand for corn, soybeans and other crops is being impacted by trade war policies, politics and battles.
When the President apparently parroted conspiracy theories, in his tweets, about the 75-year-old peaceful protestor in Buffalo, were people thinking: I just don’t understand? After being forcibly shoved by a police officer, the 75-year-old, seen on his back on the sidewalk with blood flowing from his ear, spent days in intensive care. But the POTUS tweet suggested he may have faked the fall, like professional basketball players do, sometimes, to draw a foul.
The President suggesting that Antifa rabble rousers were the ones mostly responsible for causing mayhem during protests is being debunked by officials in law enforcement. Police in Bellevue, Washington, for example, after tracking “discussion on social media…and intelligence from federal agencies (determined) that gang members known to investigators were planning to descend on the city,” according to CNN. “Over a matter of minutes, and with apparent coordination, the crowd of two dozen swelled to some 300 people, most of whom appeared to have no connection to the protest movement…”
The President wants to resume campaign rallies, while the jury is still out on COVID-19, and as COVID cases and deaths seem to be increasing.
There’s more, there always is, at these crazy moments in time.
I just don’t understand.
Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.