John Phillips may have been good musically (for a brief period), but he was bad in more ways that you want to imagine. Incest, sex with minors, alcohol, drugs, wife abuse to the point of hospitalization, satanism, who knows what else. Laurel Canyon has it all -- in a far different way than Q "has it all".
The Origins of Progressive Agony
In the wake of Obama, the Democratic party was a shipwreck, to be saved only by Hillary and the Supreme Court . . .
What has transformed the Democratic party into an anguished progressive movement that incorporates the tactics of the street, embraces maenadism, reverts to Sixties carnival barking, and is radicalized by a new young socialist movement? Even party chairman Tom Perez concedes that there are no moderate Democrats left, and lately the rantings of Cory Booker, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez confirm that diagnosis....
Obama, the Fallen God
Paradoxically, Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 and 2012 and yet helped to erode the old Democratic party in the process.
The 2016 Election
The 2016 election understandably embittered and radicalized Democrats
Then came Trump, who considered politics as a sort of televised WWE wrestling mat, and who enjoyed the political fray as much as he had when he once climbed into a real Wrestlemania ring with Vince McMahon.
The System
Progressives soon woke up to the reality that without power they were unable to stop Trump, and so they embraced any desperate means necessary to trap the ogre.
The Supreme Court
More exasperating still was the loss of the Supreme Court, the last bastion of elite brilliance and superior morality
Apparently he was never very good musically — but he DID have a military intelligence background!