U.S. Drops in World Happiness Ranking
Why has the U.S. fallen to its lowest happiness ranking ever? Well, most Americans harbor at least one, often many, deep concerns about their country’s ongoing capacity to support a strong quality of life.
Some of us are worried about ourselves, e.g., inflation and high-paying jobs, where others are kept awake at night by issues facing huge masses of our population, for example: women, LBGTQs, the poorly educated, those without healthcare, people of color, and young people whose lives will be heavily impacted by climate change and other sorts of eco-catastrophe.
Above all, most Americans are horrified at what Trump and Musk are doing to the U.S. government, and the concept that our democracy may become a relic of the past.
Those of us who love America are profoundly saddened to watch this happen. As someone said recently, “This is like being tied to a chair being forced to watch a toddler play with a loaded gun.”
Answer to the question posed at left:
My wife and I have friends in Oklahoma.
On an almost daily basis, readers send me news articles like the one at left that raise the question: why are Trump supporters so much more likely than progressives to be involved in criminal activities, and, as an example, sex crimes that involve children? Is this somehow a requirement to be a part of MAGA?
There is no question that the world needs a bumper crop of peace-makers, rather than a few more billionaires demanding tax cuts at the expense of the common man. But how could this possibly come about?
It’s funny, my wife and I were just talking about this.
What has happened to the economy over the past half century? Well, here are a number of things that are provable:
The weird thing about Trump is that about half of voters agree with Robert DeNiro (though we might not express ourselves quite like he does), while the other half believe the president was sent by God to make America great again.
Yes, that’s true. But that would a be a lot easier to achieve if we had fewer hateful, uneducated people who vote for Trump.
An old friend sent me 
