For a while, it appeared that the United States might be progressing beyond its ignorant “tough guy” ethos of Dirty Harry and moving towards an understanding and implementation of science in our culture.
Then Trump came along and gave his approval for all Americans to be their worst, most stupid selves.
It’s not as if the United States has held the moral high ground throughout its history, with its slavery, the butchering of the Indians, Jim Crow, the support of tyrannical dictatorships around the globe, and the corrupt suppression of the working class in favor of Trump’s billionaire donors.
Yet, it was very recently that the entire nation became a force for the destruction of civil society.
Are you saying that Trump is defying the law, as if this is news?
It happens almost every day.
Most people change their political ideologies as they go through life, experience new things, and continue to learn. This is natural, and the vast majority of these folks are perfectly honest and sincere.
On the other hand, there are people like JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, and, of course, Donald Trump, who are simply opportunists. They would try to convince you that day is night if they thought it would further their careers.
They count on Americans to accept things like the following: Last June, we obliterated Iran’s nuclear weapons capability. Now we have to re-obliterate it.
There is a huge audience of American fools who are thinking: makes perfect sense to me! When we get finished with this war, we’re gonna f*** it up again!
Within the realm of political punditry, I’ve always wondered if people like Rush Limbaugh actually believe what he told his wildly receptive American audience. Is he really a hateful moron, or was he, just like the televangelists, just another career actor, looting the bank accounts of our nation’s idiots?
Far more important than any of this is the fact that Trump is the first overtly criminal president, with no regard for the law, who, remarkably, remains in office while violating the Constitution and committing treason on a daily basis.
There really are threats to human civilization that seem to be mounting in intensity:
• World fascism. (If it can happen in the U.S., it could conceivably happen anywhere.)
• Environmental collapse.
• Malicious use of AI.
• Pandemics, as misinformation on vaccinations spread and the frozen tundra melts, releasing pathogens never seen by humans.
• Nuclear war.
Addressing the point made at left, is there any scenario in which world governments agree to cooperate so as to stave off the end of an organized society here on Earth? One supposes so, though it sounds far-fetched in today’s world in which the leaders of most of the 200+ sovereign nations are trying so desperately to cling to power.
Trump and his cabinet members are doing everything in their power to turn this nation into an idiocracy, but they’re running into headwinds in the form of federal judges.
As shown here, our Secretary of War has a new way to sell the illegal and pointless war in Iran to the most ignorant people in America.
Predictably, the Pope is having none of this.
Obviously, James Carville has been wrong before, but it appears that he’s onto something here.
An ever-increasing number of Americans are realizing that Trump is criminally insane, and is leading this nation to destruction.
It’s a pleasure to see that Dr. Brian Cox has become so popular, having joined the ranks of Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and a few others. This phenomenon of celebrity physicists is one of very few bright spots in our modern world.
I would qualify what he says at left as follows: the only people who hate the economics here are those invested in fossil fuels. Clean energy and transportation are already huge industries, and they’re growing at an amazing pace–even in the face of heavy suppression by Big Oil and Donald Trump.
