Commentary By Samuel Strait – July 12, 2022\ I would like to be writing articles about a recent trip along the winding, beautiful, tree filled delight of Howland Hill Road. A magnificent drive of 10.8 miles of a tall tree extravaganza, blue sky and warming summer temperatures. A brief stop in Hiouchi, followed by a wonderful lunch at the Hiouchi Cafe, then a drive down Highway 197 following the pristine waters of the Smith River to the Ocean. I would like to be writing about a filling breakfast at the Log Cabin Dinner, before returning to the False Klamath Cove for a walk along the shore line or a stroll at one of the many trails in the area. I would like to write about experiencing the breath taking scenic views from Battery Point Lighthouse or any other of the many splendors this County has to offer. But no, as we are locked in the train wreck of a Democratically elected Federal Government, a similarly idiotic Democrat State disaster, and local government that is following suit. I often wonder if there is a reckoning on the horizon for this trifecta of total and almost unbelievable combination of complete lunacy that has over taken what passes for government in this Country. I can not imagine that very many intelligent adults can think that anything that has happened in the past year and a half as beneficial in but a very few ways. It is my fervent hope that those who were responsible for electing Joe Biden, president, retaining Gavin Newsom as Governor of California, and reelecting Chris Howard to represent District Three suffer along with the rest of the citizens of this great Country. May those that think this has been a great path forward, please explain how the inflation caused over the past year and a half makes you happy to be spending $150 to fill your gas tank, $200 for a visit to the grocery store, $230 for a trip to the pharmacy, and nearly everything else that has shot up in price. For those that still can eat out, are you enjoying that $100 meal served in your favorite restaurant, but then we are just talking about inflation that no one in government seems to be able to figure out how it came about. Like the increase in violent crime, or the wave of illegals coming across our Southern Border. Perhaps you enjoy the homeless camps, the increase in drug use, or even the explosion of overdoses. Maybe the hysterical over reaction to the Federal Government giving the decision of infanticide to the States is your cup of tea. Maybe you liked wearing a face mask or social distancing that has done nothing to protect you from Covid-19. Perhaps you enjoy getting jabbed endlessly with a gene therapy called a "vaccine" that has been neither vetted properly, nor can prevent you from infection because our vaunted Medical Establishment told you to do it. Are you liking the effects of the mindless homage to "Climate Change" that has destroyed whole countries and cast emerging nations back into third world status. Do you like supply change disruptions, empty store shelves, or lack of common every day items that are no longer available? Are you eagerly waiting to pony up $50,000, $60,000, or even $80,000 to purchase that mandated electric car? Solar panels or that windmill in your backyard's future? At some point one would think that even those that are not wildly out of touch progressives or insulated by wealth would begin to understand that a growing portion of the population in the United States, California, and even here locally, would consider the possibility that those governments have failed us in the extreme. Higher and higher taxation on everything nearly to the point of taxes on just being born. Growth of government at every level, yet services make not even a pretense of improving. Heaven forbid that those in the upper levels of government were to take a pay cut, pay for their own gasoline, buy their own groceries, let the "Walmart" shoppers bear the burden of filling the "Public Tough". When are the "Walmart" shoppers going to wake up and see those in government for what they are, creating the pain for a growing percentage of the American public, all the way down to the local level. When will the reckoning begin? Let's hope in November.