Are Americans changing what they eat, as a reaction to the shocking prices in the grocery stores? It would be a significant silver lining to the foreign policy disasters of the current regime. The whole idea of fast food has fallen out of my head. Does it seem like McDonalds is less busy than the past? Wouldn't it be nice to see thousands of Starbucks close? Eating "out" has become unimaginable. I am even shocked by the coffee prices at the gas station. Even the junk food at the Dollar Stores has become unaffordable.
Obesity might become a shrinking industry in America. Older men remember that you couldn't walk through a grocery store in the good old days, without turning the corner at an aisle and being surprised -- or momentarily stunned -- by some nice-looking young lady. Imagine if that were to happen again!
The worse the news becomes, the easier it is to become hopeful, almost to the point of escapism. When I drive along on a highway I look for "For Sale" signs in the windows of RVs, parked near the highway. Is that just more wishful thinking?
Perhaps the relentless news about the absurdities of the current president will improve our news or information diet. For instance, on talking head channels on You Tube, they tend to start off with a 30 second clip of the daily nonsense from the president's mouth. Then they ask their guest to react to or "analyze" that news clip. What point is there in "analyzing" anything that man says. I have started turning the channel off. That is the best way to get junk food out of my mind.
One more useless fantasy: imagine a new excise tax or surcharge being applied to the viewers of Fox News and to Christian Zionist Evangelical Bible churches! Every time you go to the gas pump or grocery store you feel a desire to get even with somebody, and these are the two groups who really deserve it.
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