We need to hear what happened to Liz and Adam
By Dave Read, Lenox, MA, April 29, 2025 – Just as the hit movie Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice reflects late 1960’s thinking on how to do the work necessary to become our best selves, it seems to me that Bernie & AOC & Liz & Adam may lead us up and out of bondage to MAGA.
While Bernie and AOC run around the country scaring or seducing oligarchs into submission, Liz and Adam have a singular opportunity to become as important to the world as Bill W. and Dr. Bob became in the years before WWll.
The founders of A.A. were intelligent, God-fearing men, intent on living good lives and taking good care of family, friends, and the community. But they kept getting drunk and spoiling one opportunity after another. They tried every cure suggested to them, but still wound up drunk.
Then, while out of town, on business, and on the wagon, one of them was knocked sideways right after the idea of a drink occurred to him. Instead of going for that drink, he found someone like him who also was struggling to avoid that next drink.
The two accomplished together what neither had been able to do alone, and today, untold millions around the world have found their way up and out of bondage to alcohol through the miracle of mutual self-help.
As the dutiful daughter of someone who had been dismantling America’s New Deal, Fair Deal, and New Frontier since the Nixon presidency, it’s no wonder Liz Cheney wound up in Congress, where she voted MAGA 97% of the time.
Loyalty to one’s father is a given, until it becomes a sin. We must never forget that Fred Trump was a Hitler partisan, a racist, and a slumlord. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Adam Kinzinger had somehow been seduced into the conservative camp by the time he was a teenager. We must await his explanation for that premature senility. Usually, one doesn’t stop thinking of how to make things better until they’re grown retrospective in old age.
Conservatism faces backwards by definition; one has noting to conserve until one has gathered more than one needs for present comfort and future security.
These are stories only Liz and Adam can tell: how two intelligent, God-fearing people, intent on living good lives and taking good care of family, friends, and the community, wind up key players in a party that has become the enemy, not only of the American people, but of people around the world who wish to live where government is of the people, by the people, and for the people?
MAGA is only revenge for Fred Trump’s 1972 arrest, in Maryland, for ignoring federal housing regulations (thus, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s recent abduction in Maryland), pardon for Navy war criminals and other scoundrels during term 1, now term 2 pardons for the JanSix tourists who smeared the Capitol with feces, and postponement of his own perp walk into the penitentiary.