The only one in America whose life is improved by mass deportation is Donald Trump.
Ignorant and hateful people (the MAGA base) love the idea of punishing people with brown skin. Yet working class white supremacists actually lose financially, as prices rise due to loss of workers in low-income jobs in agriculture, restauranting, childcare, landscaping, construction, hospitality, etc.
Remarkably, there are still Americans who buy into the concept promoted at left. Most people have figured out that:
The greed of corporations and billionaires has usurped our lawmaking processes and made it extremely difficult for the working class to live any decent kind of life.
Rule of law is a joke in the United States.
The final days of free market capitalism are upon us, leaving the common American more depressed and desperate than in any past age.
I met a guy yesterday who observed that Americans seem so sad nowadays. His theory is that our jobs don’t pay well enough to enable us to attain financial stability vis-a-vis consumer prices, and that this is largely a function of corporate greed.
As the United States continues its slide into corporatocracy and oligarchy, the concept of universal healthcare becomes ever more unlikely.
As the midterms approach, we need to brace ourselves for the onslaught of messaging from the GOP to the effect that Trump is the only force separating America from communism. This, believe it or not, is a concept warmly embraced by tens of millions of hateful idiots.
The rest of the developed world deems healthcare to be a human right, like potable water. We counter: Bull****. Corporate profitability is supreme right here.
Yes, the MAGA crowd has a huge appetite for the type of rhetoric we see at left, but their numbers are slowing shrinking.
That said, it’s still amazing that the U.S. is home to tens of millions of idiots who believe that liberals hate our country and are trying to destroy it.
One doesn’t have to wear this shirt in public to approve of its message.
In addition to the world “idiot” I would add the word “hateful.” You really can’t be in the MAGA crowd without a deep repulsion for blacks, scientists, gays, immigrants, Muslims, women, intellectuals, and people of kindness.
I saw an interview earlier today, in which a TV news journalist (I forget which one) predicted that the threat of communism is going to be the central theme of the Republican leading up to the midterm elections. Here’s Trump setting this up.
This makes sense, given that the target audience is largely unaware that:
In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy led this nation through a nightmarish effort to imprison anyone with any ties to communism. This is now regarded as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in U.S. history.
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There are dozens of social democracies around the globe that offer their citizens extremely high qualities of life. The countries at the top of the World Happiness Rankings are, in order,
Now, the typical MAGA guy can’t find Finland on a map of the world, but it’s that very level of ignorance that makes all this horsecrap work.
Trump is working hard to dismantle NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the largest collection of American scientists focusing on climate change. In particular, he shut down NOAA’s website, that formerly gave everyone on Earth the ability to look at key climate-related data.
In response, those scientists, knowing that we can no longer trust the U.S. government for real climate science, have set up Climate.us.
More here, from NPR.
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Here’s a short video that explains why we write.
Like the farmer planting the seed, we do not know if it will grow into a life-giving plant, but we believe that it’s possible.
If I were asked to explain the huge correlation between poorly educated people and Trump supporters, I’d point to the quote from Helen Keller at left.
