Why is this planet doing so little to mitigate climate change? Yes, partly it’s due to the fact that people alive today, especially those in the second half of their lives, will be dead before the worst effects of global warming turn this planet into a wasteland.
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.
It’s amazing what gets Americans upset.
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?
As shown at left, the United States has, in large measure, abandoned the idea that our government act in accord with the U.S. Constitution and the wishes of the men who came together to found this nation.
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.
Given that the crime rate is so much higher in the red states, what’s the fascination with punishing cities that are controlled by democrats?
By exerting the absolute power that Trump believes comes along with the U.S. presidency, he has most definitely thrown most Americans into a snit.
Strangely, we preferred the representative democracy we had before.
Good question.
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.
This reminds me of someone I met who believes the Earth is hollow, and that there is a hole at the North Pole that leads down to an underground world. When he told me that he wants to lead an expedition up there to find it, I suggested that a less expensive way forward would be talking to the hundreds of airplane pilots who fly near the North Pole every day, or downloading publicly available satellite images.
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.
When my wife asked me just now what is happening in the world, I told her that it’s just an extension of what we’ve been seeing. In the United States, for instance, Trump and his loyalists are using whatever tactics they can get away with, military and otherwise, to take over the U.S. federal government.
The question is how far they can go before they’re stopped, and, incredibly, no one knows.
What has happened within the Republican party is shameful, but most Americans continue to believe that it can and will be put right.
What ultimately takes Trump down and dissolves the MAGA/Trumpist movement has yet to be seen, but many things look bleak until they get turned around.
A couple of notes here:
1) Anyone who is surprised to learn that the senior political echelon in Texas is morally bankrupt is a fool.
2) This country was most certainly not founded on the bible; the founding fathers were abundantly clear on that.
