Will finds not a bunch of things to like about America

I had two guilty pleasures when I was still a columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer Daily News.

One was reading Christine Flowers’ weekly column. The other was looking at Will Bunch’s column.

Note I said “looking at,” not reading.

The “why” is simple. 

Dogs eat vomit. I don’t.

I would look at Bunch’s column just to be sure it was something he had thrown up before. It always was. He hasn’t had a surprising thought in two decades. If a conservative idea ever crept up on him, he would beat it to death with his Birkenstocks. (Metaphor. I don’t know what shoes he wears as he paddled around the newsroom, when we had one, in stockinged feet. Yes, Shoeless Will Bunch.) 

Anyway, the paper made him a “national columnist,” who rarely leaves his suburban home. 

He describes himself in his online profile as a person “with some strong opinions about what’s happening in America around social injustice, income inequality and the government..”

I describe him as someone with some wrong opinions about what’s happening.

He was identified as a member of JournoList — an email group of approximately 400 “progressive” and socialist journalists, academics and “new media” activists.

JournoList members reportedly coordinated their messages in favor of Barack Obama and the Democrats, and against Sarah Palin and the Republican Party. JournoList was founded in 2007 and was closed down in early 2010. It was shut down because they got caught fixing the dice.

To me, “coordinating” messages with other journalists is not what journalists should do. Journalists should be competing with each other to present the freshest, most unique viewpoints, not creating a Deep State Fourth Estate. JournoList members acted cohesively to support the government rather than challenge it.

It was beyond  wrong. It was Leftist group think, antithetical to solid journalism.

All this brings me to his latest dog barf, that asks the question, in the headline, “Is America hopelessly sexist? Harris vs. Trump will answer that question”

It won’t, but I will.

No, it isn’t, and no, it won’t.

Bunch is among the Chicken Little class of journalists, the chronic bed-wetters of the woke wing of the Democratic Party. They accuse Donald J. Trump of having a “dystopian” (one of their favorite words) view of America, while all they see is an American people chained by racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia, anti-Semitism, mass incarceration, income disparity, social injustice, hunger food insecurity, homelessness those experiencing lack of shelter, addiction, substance use disorder.

Does America have problems?

Of course, but if all you see are the problems, the problem may be with you.

Remember Jeff Foxworthy’s “You might be a redneck if…?”

Well, you might be woke if all you see are America’s problems, real or imagined.

Despite the headline, Bunch’s latest opus incongruously opens with five paragraphs about tunes played at conventions, with Bunch (who reportedly was an athlete at Hackley, the elite, private school in upstate New York, where he became best friends with Leftist ranter Keith Olbermann) zeroing in on “It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World.” Anyone not hopelessly biased knows that Trump’s #1 all-time favorite campaign song is Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” You can listen to it here. (He also has a strange affection for “YMCA.”)

Let’s get back to the question of hopeless sexism in America.

That suggests to me that women just can’t get a break in America.

Despite them being a statistical majority.

126 members of Congress are women.

That is less than the proportionate share of the 535 seats, but it hasn’t been that long since waves of women began running for political office. 

12 U.S. governors are women, 13 if you count Guam.

Women account for 22 lieutenant governors. Kamala Harris was elected to the U.S. Senate from our most populous state. Kirsten Gillibrand is the U.S. Senator from New York, another big blue state. Just blue states, you say? Nope. Katie Britt from Alabama, Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming, Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee, Cindy Hyde-Smith from Mississippi, Joni Ernst from Iowa. There are 25 women in the U.S. Senate.

Almost 75% of all teachers are women, 63% of veterinarians are women, 58% of all college undergraduates are women.

The list goes on.

Bunch probably is living his 2016 nightmare in which Trump beat Hillary Clinton, which she, and Bunch, blame on “sexism.” 

Not her lousy campaign strategy, not her unlikeable personality, not her animating the opposition by calling them “deplorables” No, it was “sexism.”

Am I saying there is no sexism in America?

I am not.

There is also racism, ageism, and all the phobias, but it is not enough to stop you if you are smart, ambitious, and willing to outwork the other guy human.