Here, Samuel L. Jackson provides a fresh insight into today’s Republican party. It’s the polar opposite of the idea we all learned as children: live and let live.
People who aren’t straight white Christian males are the enemy.
At 2GreenEnergy, we talk a great deal about the incredible transition in the politics of the Republican party of the United States.
When I was growing up in the 1960s, Republicans were actually fairly sane people. Nobody was trying to suppress voting, rejecting science, or declaring the Democrats were communists.
The meme here provides a good example of what I mean.
From a reader: Okay… confession: I only physically read about a quarter of it.
I’ll make an even greater confession: I read “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” back-to-back when I was a teenager, and they meant a great deal to me at the time.
It was a couple of decades later that I realized that “the virtue of selfishness,” as Rand described her philosophy, is a horrible basis on which to build a society. Fortunately, there isn’t a nation on Earth where everything is privatized: roads, tunnels, bridges, airports, law enforcement, criminal justice, disaster relief, libraries, national defense, bank deposit insurance, emergency healthcare, food safety, etc.
Moreover, hoping that rich and selfish people will restrain themselves from ruining the environment is a joke.
A couple of facts, for those who still put a value on the truth:
Trump has had little to nothing to do with work requirements and government sponsored supplemental nutrition, and
more Trump voters every day are regretting their choices.
Good question John. Thanks for asking. A partial answer lies below.
What this British fellow fails to understand is that here in America, Trump supporters:
Their standard of truth is: If Trump says it, it’s true. If it’s unflattering to Trump, it’s a lie, cooked up by a radical left communist who hates America. Critical thinking is for woke sissies.
Without doubt, stupidity is part of Trumpism, but it’s only a part.
Meanness is also essential. People with any real compassion for others don’t have what it takes to be a member of the MAGA base.
As Aristotle said (plus or minus): Only people who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.
In retrospect, the United States hadn’t gotten burned too badly until Donald Trump came along.
The woman has an interesting perspective.
American workers who are facing agonizing and preventable deaths predominantly vote for the party that is condemning them to that horrible fate.
That’s just one of the many disgusting facets of today’s life in the U.S.
