How Did Trump Get So Far?
The author of the meme here poses an excellent question.
I believe it will ultimately be shown that Putin had a great deal to do with this. Russia benefits from a United States that is depleted morally, diplomatically, and economically. An insane and autocratic leader who actively tried to overthrow the U.S. government is the biggest gift to Russia imaginable.
At the same time, the less controversial theories have weight as well, e.g., the devastated American educational system. The whole concept of a Trump supporter, i.e., a voter who is incapable of seeing that the former is a pathological liar and conman, couldn’t have existed in any meaningful quantities until very recently. Now we have people casting ballots who couldn’t find Ukraine on a map, or tell you what a virus is, or believe that the government controls the weather.
Americans’ human rights are under fierce attack from the far-right-wing. At left is a warning concerning the right of women to make their own choices regarding their reproductive systems, but it just as well could have dealt with LGBTQs, Muslims, people of color, or immigrants.
Right now, we are seeing a slow but steady increase in the recognition that our climate is warming due primarily to the consumption of fossil fuels.
An important part of the Republican party’s strategy going into the 2024 elections is to convince Americans that their country lies in ruins due to the incompetence of the Democrats in power. Unfortunately, this means amplifying every piece of bad news, and, in particular, telling bald-faced lies about important things like hurricane response.
Saptadip Pramanik submits this question and asserts that the answer is Aristotle.
How much misery can be created by inventing stories about Haitians’ eating Ohioans’ pet dogs and cats? I don’t know, but it’s limited.
It’s very difficult to feel sympathy for those who get stung by Donald Trump and his well recognized habit of stiffing vendors.
The author of the meme here has nailed something very important.
Perhaps the single strangest aspect to American political life today is that an entire party, one that not too long ago defined itself in terms of a strong military, now pays no attention to the observations of our top generals and admirals.
“Object permanence” is a term developmental psychology used to mean the point at which infants, usually at the age of perhaps six months, come to understand that the things around them like bottles, toys, and people don’t disappear simply because they go out of range of sight, only to somehow reconstitute themselves later, when they return to the baby’s field of vision.
