The 1970s was a bright few years for musical variety shows on television. How people loved the Osmond family, the Partridge Family, the Jackson Five. Retired as I am now, I lapse into deliquescent oldster memory jags and start singing.
It was a generous hunk of a century going backward that Donnie and Marie Osmond had their own television show. From a musical family background wholesome as enriched, bleached tapioca, they performed duets. One duet was about how one was a little bit country and the other one was rock ‘n’ roll.
It makes perfect sense. We can all get along, in spite of gross differentials, as blithely as the Osmonds. The recent playdate in our nation’s capital, twixt New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and President Trump, went so well I’m singing like Donnie and Marie.
Of the two politicians, Trump is a little bit capitalist while Mamdani is reputed to be a load Marxist. Exactly where either person stands on you-name-it is not as clear as anyone might like. Our trading partner, China, is a little bit communist and is conducting business with free market, more or less, USA. That relationship is like the Little Engine That Could.
I’m seeing puerile hope things could go swell in the future with NYC and Washington, D.C., playing nice in spite of infinite differentials far and wide. With all the hurley-burley, it’s a swell time for Dems and GOPs to start liking each other.
Bruce Reisner
Perry South