One Year from Now
OK, the interview at left won’t happen. But it is illustrative of how Trump supporters find twisted ways to justify anything and everything that their hero does. Will the United States be a better, stronger country without things like European allies, a decent public education system, and economic stability?
Right now, as you’re reading this, there are people at Fox News, hard at work behind the scenes, creating narratives that explain how all this crap happening in Washington is actually Making America Great Again.
At left we have the words of American actor, comedian, writer, and talk show announcer Andy Richter. And what he says is 100% true.
This reminds of us of what Tom Joad said at the end of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, when someone asked him where he was going:
Of course, this is not going to happen, for dozens of different reasons, but the author of the meme here does make an interesting point.
Here’s just one more example of how far the United States has fallen in the period of less than two months since Trump took office:
According to my observation, the UK has an electorate that is similar to that of the US in many ways, with its wealthy conservatives and its underclass. However, there is a significant difference in that almost everyone in the UK has a minimum standard of grace, class, good humor, charity, and honesty that is absent in many Americans.
Human civilization finds itself at a crossroads, where it needs to choose between things like democracy vs. authoritarianism/fascism, and environmental sustainability vs. eco-collapse.
As shown here, there truly are cultures around the world that are based on care for one another, and for environmental sustainability.
There’s something going around social media that asks, “What does America do better than any other country on Earth?”
The graffiti shown here is in downtown Calgary in western Canada.
