Recent news sources covered some new political action that may be the first positive sign of a transition out of the conflagration everyone experiences today. The new action is a sudden boldness by middle-liberal democrats to launch campaigns against incumbent democrats. If we were gardeners waiting for signs of Spring, this would be like noticing that first tiny leaf poking through. There still may be a frost – but the leaf is a good omen.

Our intuitions tell us that the current democratic party has been headless since Barrack Obama. Not that Joe Biden was a failure but everyone assumed he would restore leadership in his one term then let the new leadership run in the next election. Kamala Harris wasn’t a substitute.

Everyone has watched a few progressives try to fight the republican conservatism; examples are Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but the current news is about a group of democrats forming a unified effort to remove older, less aggressive democrats. The common complaint is that the elected officials are not standing up to the Trump challenge. An example is the challenge to Chuck Shumer for backing the budget bill.

When one waits to change their underwear until after they are on the bus, it will be a blatant fiasco. The US government is trying to change underwear that needed changing forty years ago. As evil and self-centered as Trump is, he is a causative force that says change the underwear NOW! The trick is to not wear Trump’s choice of underwear.

Today’s news is not enough to change anything but at least there is hope that Spring may come.

Ancient Mariner