The Heir isn't a religious person in particular, but today Tuesday on his day off from the Bland Barns Catering Counter, he's observing Father's Day and in a particular sort of way.  He's not specifically thinking of me the Mentor or Marco's Grandfather.  He's looking at Father's Day in a more spiritually devout context, and in light of the great social immorality that's still running rampant in the early 2020's as a continuation of it starting in the 2010's.  So while the moguls of this personal corruption are trying to tell the Heir how "wrong" he is for standing with principle, the Heir responds that there's one ally that transcends all others standing by him in his devotion to principle.  Happy Father's Day Week, everyone.

Today sees a test vote in the Senate regarding the voting rights bills, and again the Heir is actually more concerned about the existential message sending about the supposed "end" of democracy that would supposedly automatically result if both these bills don't pass the vote, and more so than whether such an end to democracy would necessarily come about.  And of course neither bill will pass.  This also includes the John Lewis bill, so once that gets blocked and filibustered, the Heir hopes the progressives will try to tell Mitch McConnell that he personally is dishonoring the memory of John Lewis.  He doubts that is going to happen because by resorting to existential messaging the progressives have put their weak foot forward, knowing full well Mitch McConnell will jump for joy on that weak foot.  Also it's the progressive movement the Heir knows full well has no reputation or history of coming up with sound strategies for dealing with a given pending political problem.  They're just not problem solvers inside the central movement or among charismatic public figures within that movement.  The Heir's also not surprised that the progressives may end up going after Ted Lieu for going off the existential messaging when he told the viewers of INN to not lose heart, for he and his colleagues will find a way of getting the voting bills through.  Even though the Heir still plans to help Souls To The Polls and truly in-the-trenches spare-the-PR grassroots groups, it would also satisfy the Heir that some kind of unseen intelligent problem solving pro-voting force would come out of left field and take action in such a way to really stop Mitch McConnell in his tracks, but he also believes the progressives will not allow this force in a million years.  If they're likely to go after Ted Lieu for going off-message, they will also go after this unseen force for taking away from the existential messaging.  That is, until and unless the progressives prove to the Heir *personally* that they do believe in problem solving and that at least some of them get to recant and regret the existential messaging.  Right now, the Heir's still waiting for them.