Life in the United States Is Becoming More Outrageous by the Day
Ten years ago, if you had surveyed Americans as to the viability of selling off public lands to for-profit corporations, people would have laughed in your face. “That’s an outrageously stupid idea, as it strikes a blow to the core of who we are as a people,” you would have heard people say.
Now, just the blink of an eye later, it’s happening right in front of us.
I guess the word “outrageous” is relative. What was outrageous 10 years ago makes perfectly good sense today.
These people claim:
The MAGA folks are thrilled that people living here with brown skin are terrified about what’s happening under Trump. But how sustainable is this? How long will it take until fatal gunshot wounds between the hunters and the hunted become too common to keep track of?
The story at left is a strange one, though worth telling for a good reason: We all should make sure that money plays its proper role in our lives.
I would describe what Rousseau said about himself here as “gutsy.” Most of us don’t want paradoxes in our mental lives; such “cognitive dissonance” as it is called is an uncomfortable phenomenon.
If Dickens’ hope as expressed here is going to come to fruition, it will be because decent people actively made it happen.
Trump’s following of amoral rich people and uneducated whites seems to be remaining in place, because neither group actually cares too much about the veracity of what comes out of his mouth. The former group is getting tax breaks, and the latter group is getting mass deportation of non-whites.
Donna Smedley writes:
Without doubt, a cleanly and frequently mowed lawn of some variety of grass was the paradigm for our front and back yards when we were young.
It’s hard to know how the mass deportation of law-abiding though undocumented workers will turn out. Here are a few possibilities:
