Conversation Between the Founding Fathers

And a reader adds: “No felons” seemed pretty obvious. Didn’t know we had to write that one down.

And a reader adds: “No felons” seemed pretty obvious. Didn’t know we had to write that one down.

1) While I hate quibbling over the nuances of words, I wouldn’t use the word “marred” here. Dining room tables are “marred” when someone drops a knife on them. Families are “torn apart” when they lose a little kid in a shooting.
2) As a governor of a state, I suppose you’re obligated to offer prayers, but the whole idea of appealing to a god whose plan for this family included a mass shooting sounds lame in the extreme. I would simply refuse to do it.
3) Please call for the United States to deal with this epidemic the way the rest of the world has and take weapons of war out of the hands of psychopaths.

Of course, JB Pritzker is the governor of a progressive state and is speaking about Chicago, a large and extremely productive city where Trump wouldn’t be welcome even if he weren’t sending in his Gestapo. Thus, Pritzker can afford to raise his voice opposition to the would-be authoritarian.

I would say that a larger driver is the selfish greed that is part and parcel with unrestricted market capitalism. Simply put, we prioritize money over human life.

There are 1.5 billion people who can’t get a glass of clean drinking water on a planet that is slowly baking, losing its capacity to support life. A lawless authoritarian is aggressively attacking U.S. democracy.
And we somehow get our panties in a twist about how a third-rate restaurant markets itself?

We’re all waiting for the congress and/or the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and halt this lawlessness, but they both seem to be nowhere in sight.


Strangely, we preferred the representative democracy we had before.

It depends on what country. Sure, we wouldn’t want to see this anywhere in the developed world. In the developing world, we would probably say, “It’s just one more step towards world fascism, but in some country of dubious importance.”
Of course that would be sad, but the fact that it’s happening here in the world’s most important democracy is what makes it particularly tragic on the global stage.

I’m convinced that most of the people in this so-called “movement” really don’t believe what they’re espousing. If you’re in California, for instance, and the sun is starting to set, just call someone on the East Coast and ask where the sun is. When you learn that is completely dark there, you will have proved that the Earth couldn’t possibly be flat.