Why Republicans Don’t Recycle–Hint: Don’t Ask Me
I overheard a conversation the other day on recycling, in which one of the participants said, “Ha! I don’t recycle. I’m a Republican!”
When I was a little boy in the early 1960s, my parents, who were several generations deep in their conservative Republican heritage, made a big deal out of every-other Wednesday, aka “bottle-day,” when glass bottles were taken away in separate containers to be melted down and made into new ones. The ethos of the day was that doing good wasn’t a political statement; it was something that all sane and decent people subscribed to.
Just a few decades later, the idea of doing good and taking care of other people and our planet in general is now something that only woke communists could possibly be interested in.
The point made at left is a valid one: Cruelty for its own sake is a huge part of who we have become as Americans.
Scarcely a day goes by that Americans aren’t slapped in the face with some sort of horrible reminder as to how stupid we have become over such a short period of time. When you read what our Secretary of Defense says at left, what do you think that even the average high school student would say about the work of FDR and Eisenhower during WW II?
In an earlier post, I mentioned that the Canadians I meet on a daily basis seem to accept what’s happening in the United States with fairly cool heads
Corporate America seems to be at war against its consumer customers. Driving up profits by increasing prices, shrinkflation, and other forms of corner-cutting are everywhere in our lives.
The Canadians I meet on a daily basis seem to accept what’s happening in the United States more philosophically than former Member of Parliament Charlie Angus.
Just the other day I was asked to explain how countries like Iran become so backwards in terms of humanistic values. A big part of the answer is they never went through what the West experienced in the 18th Century, called the “Age of Reason,” or the “Enlightenment.” Their theocracy has endured for the last 1400 years (Islam was brought to Iran in 650 AD by the Arab-Islamic conquest of the Sasanian Empire) and shows no signs of going away.
These people claim: Human composting is now America’s fastest growing alternative to cremation and burial. This vessel holds the soil created from that process—soil that families can use to plant, scatter, or donate to restore natural landscapes. Get an instant quote online.
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