When mainstream media covers Biden, its purpose is often to show that he’s a senile old man. But wouldn’t a bit of fairness and honesty be nice?
As Robert Reich presents here, Biden is putting pressure on Corporate America to do right by U.S. citizens, and this is causing a considerable kerfuffle in court rooms across the country.
Those living outside the U.S. may not know that the states in the southern region of the country have always placed at the very bottom in terms of test scores in English, math, and science. This has been part of our nation’s reality since compulsory schooling was put into place in the 19th Century.
Now, if you or I were in charge of the public education system in a place that was failing, like Louisiana, we’d place calls to the folks in states that place at the very top and ask for advice. But no, helping kids get ahead, and live more productive and affluent lives doesn’t mean a thing in the Deep South.
As loathsome as these people are, they aren’t interested in reinstating slavery. Yet what the MAGA crowd would like to see is a return to the mid-20th Century in terms of race relations.
A friend from prep school told me, “I have no problem with blacks as long as they know their place.” A friend from college, “The only things that nig***s are good for is bringing you your lunch and putting another sprig of mint in your julep.”
What the Trump base wants is essentially apartheid, or de facto segregation at the very least.
Here’s a short but powerful video that has a great deal to teach us all.
If you’re looking for an explanation of Trumpism/MAGA, you need search no further than what George Bernard Shaw told us here.
This, of course, is the double-edged sword of social media. It connects us to one another, and to true learning, but it’s also very good at proliferating pure garbage.
Quite a conundrum. I consider myself a helpful guy, but I have no answers here.
I do know that Trump polls very well within this demographic.
Fortunately for our nation, however, it’s not large enough to put him back in the White House.
What went through the minds of our distant ancestors? How much have we lost as a civilization due to the fact that they were unable to write down their thoughts?
Interesting questions, to be sure. The meme here suggests that these two men, sitting around a campfire, were talking about things like virtue, mathematics, and the proper role of government, tens of thousands of years before Socrates and Plato.
I doubt it, especially considering that very few of us today spend even a few minutes each year grappling with these ideas.
Let’s not forget uneducated, uncivilized, and, unwelcome (outside of the orbit of hateful idiots).
We live in a pathetic society. What went so wrong?
It really is a tragedy the only one of the four felony indictments against Trump that will be prosecuted before the 2024 election are the 34 counts of fraud, for which he’ll be sentenced in July.
Think for a moment how nice it would be if the election were to come after the former president was sent away for inciting an insurrection or conspiring to overthrow the U.S. federal government.
He’s going to get huge prison time, and he’ll deserve every minute of it, but it sure would have been wonderful if voters had the opportunity to see all this.
This from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich.
Progressives are so fixated on beating Trump in November due to his lies and criminality that we sometimes forget how horrible he is on environmental issues.
