Trusting any politician to tell the truth about his/her true motives is a foolish venture. In reality, why is Joni Ernst hanging it up?
Anybody’s first guess would be that somehow she finds it morally unacceptable to continue to be a part of Trump’s driving march toward autocracy.
If that is indeed the case, good for you.
Yesterday I met one of the creators of the modern “Superman” movie series, and he asked me if I was going to see his latest piece of work. I explained, “No, I don’t avail myself of this entire genre. I do, however, remember with great fondness the early television show featuring George Reeves, and its intro theme that included the line:
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There are bound to be a few sociopaths in any society, and, if that society is a democracy, these nut-jobs are likely to elect sociopathic leaders.
The problem with America right now is that these people are not even close to “few“; they’re everywhere.
Maybe I’m just cynical, but I’m uncompelled by start-ups’ claims that early investors are positioned to disrupt some huge industry. Take the people at left, “Miso Robotics,” for instance.
Is the use of robotics rapidly replacing human labor in fast-food? Of course. Is Miso Robotics magically stationed to win a significant market share and make their investors rich? Maybe, but I’m skeptical.
Iceland is to be applauded for the direction they’ve taken vis-a-vis energy; they boast a citizenry that genuinely cares for the quality of the environment. Yet we need to keep in mind that they:
Are tiny (about one one-thousandth of the U.S. population), and
Have incredible geothermal resources.
There are two main answers to Mia Farrows’s question here:
1) They’re too dimwitted to see that Trump is, in fact, an ignorant, delusional, selfish, cruel, and boorish criminal.
2) They think some of these characteristics are actually advantageous in the case of making America great again. For example, if you’re not cruel, how can you deport families that have been honestly working hard and paying taxes in the United States for decades?
Interesting concept here.
Do all Trump voters approve of everything their leader says and does? Probably not. But overall, they see him as making America great (and white) again by taking actions like mass deportations and punishing everyone but his super-rich donors.
Put differently, he’s anything but woke, and his lack of compassion for others is hugely appealing to almost half of American voters.
I dispute that scientifically illiterate adults are a problem, rather that the issue is scientifically illiterate adults in positions of power.
There is nothing we can do–or need to do–about the 100 million or so adult Americans who couldn’t tell you the first thing about epidemiology, climate science, economics, or dozens of other subjects. All we need to do is prevent their ignorance from inflicting great damage on our lives.
Wonderful little graphic here.
For anyone wishing to find a wonderfully lucid and vaguely humorous essay on this subject, I highly recommend Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialism is a Humanism based on a lecture he gave in 1946.
It’s true that humanists are, by definition, not religious, but I would submit that few of us are troubled by Christians who simply want to apply the teachings of Jesus in their lives: love, kindness, charity, and compassion.
In the 45 years I’ve lived in/near Los Angeles, there have been few major changes. It’s still the entertainment capital of the world, while continuing to feature obnoxious traffic and housing prices. Like most if not all of the largest U.S. cities, its government is headed by Democrats.
What has changed is that the president of the United States is, for the time in American history, a person of unbridled vengeance against his perceived enemies, and thus he loves to punish these urbanites.
No surprise: the chief executive also surrounds himself with bald-faced liars who are happy to spread utter crap like that which we see above.
