This blurb on Mitch McConnell is completely true, but I have news for you: poor and ignorant people care very little about affluence and education, as long as their fundamental need is met, i.e., the supremacy of white people.
Seriously, Kentuckians adore McConnell.
We live among people who believe that God wants the United States to function according to the ideals of the modern-day Republican party:
• Round up and deport everyone living here without documentation.
• Re-instate the death penalty.
• Destroy the natural environment if it can be done profitably.
• Further degrade educational standards.
• Back Putin in his war against Ukraine.
• Transfer virtually all government power to the executive branch under Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
• Eviscerate the federal government, defunding programs that keep Americans healthy and safe.
I’m skeptical.
The suggestion from a reader at left represents the right idea overall, but needs to be rethought.
I met a guy from Norway the other day who talked about his nation’s wealth tax. In short, it’s hard to become and remain a billionaire anywhere in his region of the world, though it’s actually easy to become fairly affluent. That’s because moderate income people actually pay significantly lower tax rates than we Americans do, and, of course, all education and healthcare are free.
If I were asked to suggest the best approach to a wealth tax, I’d start by researching how various countries around the globe have designed and implemented theirs.
The man with the sign here is my friend Paul Scott, co-founder of Plug-In America way back in 2005. FWIW, Paul overbuilt the solar PV array on his roof specifically to charge his car; he hasn’t used a drop of gasoline in decades.
He writes:
That’s me, standing on the corner, which I’ll be doing every day now in protest. When you buy gas, you fund Trump. The oil industry spent over a billion dollars in the last election making sure he and his cronies took office.
At left are the words of former Republican Party U.S. representative from Illinois and 2020 Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh, apologizing to the free world for what’s happening in the United States at this point in time.
It is indeed a tragedy.
The author of the meme here doesn’t seem to understand that the youngsters in DOGE are making policy decisions that do violence to the health, safety, and general well-being of every American, and, indirectly, most of the people in other countries around the world.
Greta, by contrast, makes no policy decisions. And even if she did, they would be informed by science, and aimed at environmental sustainability–something most people agree is a good thing.
She’s 22 years old, btw. A little honesty would be nice.
Yes, stupidity is required here, but keep in mind that the MAGA crowd will believe anything, regardless of how absurd, if it comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth. That’s more than mere stupidity.
Someone asked me recently if I thought it was possible that Greenland holds a legitimate national security purpose for the United States (as Trump claims). I responded that I don’t know, because I’m not privy to our military secrets, but I’m 100% confident that Denmark will allow us to do anything we want on Greenland if it will help protect the world against foreign aggression.
My wife believes that the United States is headed towards the Orwellian dystopia “1984,” based on the systematic distortion of truth we see all around us. If a U.S. president can convince his followers that Ukraine started the war with Russia by attacking first, I suppose she has a point.
We shouldn’t expect people with hundreds of billions of dollars to become heroes, but we shouldn’t allow them to become terrorists, either.
I’m sure that millions of people have had the thought offered at left.
Personally, I would tackle the environment, making large investments in decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors, and moving to sustainable agriculture.
