Bottom Up and Middle Out

Joe Biden shows us what Bob Dylan meant when he said "He not busy being born is busy dying"

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I don’t usually write about national politics but Biden’s State of the Union Speech and what is being said about it is really something.

According to his political enemies, Biden is a man suffering from dementia.

No Way Hose! Biden is a man who is still busy being born and at his age, being born means an advanced stage of development drawing upon years of political experience capable of weaving converging threads together as a singular expression of a new political paradigm.

A jovial Biden commences the State of the Union address by congratulating the new Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, resetting the political tone of American politics toward mutual respect and cooperation.

And then Biden, pushing eighty years old, gives voice to the moment and drives the narrative and details the policy of the new paradigm rising out of the wreckage of almost half a century of trickle-down rhetoric that delivers trickle-up policy.

”Bottom Up and Middle Out’ is the catchy hook of B…