World Peace
The reader who sent this question posed at left provided his one-word answer: Greed.
I’m afraid he’s right. As Socrates said, “All wars are about money.” And as our annual military budget gets ever closer to $1 trillion, all that cash needs a home, normally in proxy wars that are being fought all around the globe.
Of course, greed has horrific effects that push far beyond actual military hardware and personnel. Consider climate change as an example. Big Oil and its investors are profiting enormously from their actions that are warming our planet causing loss of land masses, droughts, fires, desertification, floods, loss of biodiversity, and ocean acidification. This, as our generals and admirals are aware, is in the process of creating huge national security issues as climate refugees are forced to emigrate from their homelands.
While Germany has a far-right party, the AfD, 
As suggested at left, big money bets on science every single time.
The answer is simple: There are issues that are far higher priorities than Trump’s lies and criminality. More than half the voters in this country place extreme amounts of value on:
As we read the words at left, a kind of incredulity comes over us. This couldn’t really happen, could it?
I don’t wish to be mean to these people, but there is something both funny and appropriate about this.
Here’s an idea: If you don’t believe that the United States has border security, you could plan a trip with your daughter to the border and see what the ~64,000 federal employees are actually doing on a day-to-day basis (see below).
If one takes the meme here out of context, we’re doing pretty well. The problem is that the rate at which species are going extinct is going through the roof, due to the intrusion of humankind into animal habitats, coupled with climate change.
To some people, the meme at left implies that they can extend their lives by reading more. Perhaps in a few rare cases, that may be true.
