Monday, July 6, 2026

Liberty’s fall on the rocky cliffs of Maine

A dramatic allegorical illustration unfolds upon a storm-battered rocky coastline. At the centre stands a distressed female embodiment of Lady Liberty, her tarnished crown askew and her weathered green robes torn and windswept by the sea. Tears glisten upon her face as she reaches imploringly towards a rugged man standing before her at the water’s edge. Her expression conveys desperation, heartbreak, and uncertainty. An extinguished torch lies abandoned among the wet rocks in the foreground, symbolising lost confidence or weakened ideals. Behind Liberty, atop a rocky outcrop, a stern blonde woman in a dark business suit observes the confrontation with folded arms. Powerful waves crash against the shore beneath a sky filled with heavy clouds and fading sunlight. The composition combines political symbolism with emotional drama, presenting a vision of liberty in crisis, caught between competing forces amid a landscape of turmoil and foreboding change.
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Maine Democratic Party calls on Graham Platner to drop out of US Senate race after sexual assault allegations emerge. {Maine Morning Star 6 July}

https://mainemorningstar.com/2026/07/06/democrats-are-calling-on-platner-to-drop-after-latest-allegations/

Do not be so confident the Democratic Party is going to win anything in November. Between backing a clearly unstable and dangerous candidate in Platner, candidates moving further left and alienating a centre-right nation, and successful GOP gerrymandering efforts in key states, it is not looking as though the GOP becoming nothing more than a personality cult — a gaggle of sycophants to Trump — is going to dissuade average voters from leaning Republican, because the alternative is just that much worse to them. I do not personally believe the Democrats are worse — not after ten years of Republicans making fools of themselves, appeasing Trump and his white trash voter base, and adopting neo-fascism as their guiding ideology — but are they any good? They stabbed President Joe Biden in the back, and in doing so allowed Donald Trump to return to office, and these are the consequences of such treachery. The Republicans are clearly aiming toward an eventual one-party state, and the Democrats just keep shooting themselves in the foot. A viable centrist third party should have come along about a decade ago, but it is too late. Into the abyss we go.

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