Our Reasons to Feel Safe from Government Are Not What They Used to Be
Before Trump, no politically active U.S. citizen thought he was taking a risk to his personal safety by criticizing the president and/or his administration. This country, and, in fact, the entire West, had experienced the Enlightenment (aka the Age of Reason) of the late 18th Century, central to which were the doctrines of the French Revolution and the U.S. Constitution. In place of monarchy, our societies now had rule of law and various guarantees of freedom, e.g., that of speech and of the press.
250 years later, we Americans live in a country in which these freedoms are teetering on the edge of extinction. The only reason I don’t feel the terror of an armed state coming to my door is that my following is a tiny fraction of the high-profile activists of our day.
If you were asked to name the most dangerous person in Trump’s cabinet, your first thought might be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose only qualification for the job of running the Pentagon is his tenure at Fox News and his alcoholism.
Even when I was a small boy, I had a tough time believing everlasting torture in hell was a fair punishment for anything that a person could possibly do, regardless of how heinous, in a single lifetime.
Was the damage that Elon Musk inflicted on Tesla worth it?
I remind the reader who sent me the meme here that the main use of property tax is the funding of public schools. Speaking for myself, this is a sacrifice I’ve always happily made, both before and after I had school-age children.
I have to admit, Roberts’ statement here does seem stupid in the extreme.
What Frank Herbert says here is true.
Senior energy analyst Glen Doty remarks: This made me smile.
Governor Walz: I like you, but:
As shown at left, not everyone in the United States government is letting Trump order him around like a slave.
