Believe It or Not, We Used to Value Humanity over Partisan Politics
Here’s a disgusting reminder of how far we’ve fallen in the past few decades. Just 40 years ago, America was a completely different place than it is now.
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Supporting PBS and NPR
The duty of journalism, as expressly protected in the U.S. Constitution, is to provide a check against authoritarianism.
Needless to say, we at 2GreenEnergy support Bernie Sanders’ position here.
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How Welcome Are ICE Raids in Santa Barbara?
At left: An overflow crowd has arrived at the Santa Barbara (805 area code) Board of Supervisors meeting. The recent immigration raids and follow up service needs will be discussed. The District Attorney and Sheriff are expected to speak along with numerous members of the public.
I wonder what these people will be saying about ICE activities in Santa Barbara, one of America’s best educated and liberal cities.
Just kidding.
They’re going to say: Get. The. F***. Out.
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Florida–Understanding the Appeal
Apparently, a whopping 12,000 homes are currently for sale in this Florida town, though I can’t determine exactly which one is under discussion.
But does it matter? Who exactly finds Florida appealing, in general?
One has to be an anti-woke climate denier with a weird penchant for sky-high flood insurance rates, Christian fanaticism, insects, sink-holes, and extreme right-wing politics.
Is the U.S. in “Chaos?” Or Is it Something Much Worse?
There are various ways to describe the activities of ICE in today’s America, but I don’t think “chaos” is a good one.
I’d go with “institutionalized lawlessness and cruelty,” which has turned the United States into a fascist, rogue nation.
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Can Humankind “Reach the Stars?”
To the reader who sent me this:
By “reach the stars,” I presume you have some sort of metaphorical meaning in mind, e.g., “accomplish great things.”
In any case, I’ll be both pleased and impressed if humankind still has some sort of organized and quasi-civil form to it 50 years hence. This too will require cooperation, if only in our quest to stave off environmental collapse by decarbonizing our transportation and energy sectors, and stop destroying our rainforests.
Dilemma: Should Good People Resign in Protest?
We’re impressed with good people’s bravery when they resign from their career positions in protest of things that are clearly wrong. But we’re saddened to realize that this means that the concentration of cowards who remain just increased.
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What’s HappeningToday?
At left is a reminder of how anxious Trump supporters are for a distraction from current events at the White House.
If you were to flick on Fox News right now, there is an excellent chance you would be told about something that Biden did in his presidency that could be construed as bad or wrong.
Shouldn’t we be more interested in what’s going on today?
It’s also a reminder of a fundamental difference between the two men as human beings. Where Biden did his best to help those who needed it most, Trump’s first thought is to punish those who happen to live in states that voted against him.
Trump’s Campaign to Destroy Clean Energy
In this Fortunately, there are market forces at work that put limits on the devastation. For example, the low price of solar PV here and around the world has given rise to the use of solar panels as fencing, because in many places it’s cheaper than wood.
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From David Brooks on Morals
How is it that half of America looks at Donald Trump and doesn’t find him morally repellent?” David Brooks asks. “He lies, cheats, steals, betrays, and behaves cruelly and corruptly, and more than 70 million Americans find him, at the very least, morally acceptable. Some even see him as heroic, admirable, and wonderful.”“What has brought us to this state of moral numbness?” Brooks continues. One answer lies in “a story that tries to explain how Western culture evolved to the point where millions of us—and not just Republicans and Trump supporters—have been left unable to make basic moral judgments.”
As much as I respect David Brooks, that’s a bit too highbrow for me.
A simpler explanation is that these 70+ million, largely uneducated people believe that Trump actually is making America great again, and that putting America first has more goodness to it than all his supposed immorality. In particular, he’s eliminating wokeness/DEI, reducing the number of non-whites in the country, and using clever economic policies to bring back jobs from overseas.
Many of his supporters believe that it’s the “radical left-wing” media that unfairly portrays Trump as immoral, and that it’s “activist judges” who charge him with crimes, and use the law in other ways to stop him from achieving his goals for our country.
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