This is a great post. It is sad and depressing too.
BTW, what is “tumbler” about?.
Thanks, Rockpile!
Sorry, the Tumbler reference is probably the most “inside baseball” of all of them...
Jesse White is an elderly Chicago politician who started a performance group, “Jesse White’s Tumblers” many years ago. Back in the 70s, I think. Teenagers from bad neighborhoods who perform gymnastics in parades and such. Keeps them out of gangs, keeps them on the straight and narrow. I don’t know much about them, but they’re fine...
Anyway, he was a state rep for many years, and then his popularity propelled him to three or four terms now as our statewide Secretary of State.
He’s a typical garden-variety liberal on the issues, maybe more honest than most, but still, a leftist... but the voters keep on electing him without even thinking about issues; he’s just “that great guy with the Jesse White Tumblers.”
Since a lot of my readers think of Tumblr for social media, I figured it might be a fitting closure for this piece, but it’s probably too inside-baseball.