What an extraordinary man was Buckminster Fuller.
Obviously, his vision for humankind never came to fruition, nor does it appear it ever will.
Sure, war and greed are “unnecessary,” but they are a product of our darkest underlying modalities of being; we’re no more capable of eliminating them than we are our fear of heights.
Any way you slice it, it’s been a terrible time for Republicans. That their leader has been found to be a fraud is just another page in a long, sad chapter of U.S. history, but it certainly will not be the last.
Soon, Trump will be tried for 91 felonies pursuant to four separate indictments. Whether he winds up spending a single minute in prison remains to be seen, but a succession of guilty findings coming from jurors in courts all over the country will just heap more ignominy on a party already thought of by most Americans as pond scum.
Here’s a cool statement that reminds us of what American leadership can be like.
The concept of “country first” is almost entirely lacking in Washington today, especially within the GOP.
Speaking strictly for myself, I could live with a sane, honest, and patriotic Republican, even if he/she is conservative, e.g., Liz Cheney.
Here’s yet another reminder of what could be called “the paradox of the American labor vote.”
It’s a tragedy that Trump emerges victorious among these people.
“Stop Solar” writes: We’re fighting to protect rural America and the way of life we love.
Anyone who believes that farm land is being converted to solar farms is a true idiot.
It’s almost as if there is an industry somewhere with a vested interest in stopping the expansion of renewable energy, and its preying on our rich crop of American morons.
Among the many reasons that American society is having trouble functioning right now is that many of its members don’t think very well.
Take the meme here. Are proponents of a woman’s right to choose abortion saying that pregnancy is a disease?
Shutting down the media is the first step that every authoritarian figure takes in securing his position of total and unassailable power.
The meme here reminds us of the incredible challenge facing Democrats in their quest to win over working-class voters.
Where Trump looted the U.S. Treasury and gave trillions of dollars to billionaires and corporations, Biden is doing everything in his power to ensure that every American has a living wage.
Yet for some reason (ignorance and hate?) this doesn’t seem to be registering with the electorate.
Most people in developed countries today disbelieve in the concept of hell, i.e., a place of everlasting punishment to which the souls of unrepentant evil-doers descend after death, even though Christ clearly believed in it, as inferred from his detailed description of the place in Mark 13.
Whether or not it’s real, it plays a role in our society’s archetypes.
The cartoon here made me smile, though we hope that people whose careers are built around destroying our planet for profit will have some sort of severe retribution visited upon them.
When we look at everything we want from government: better education, universal healthcare, common sense gun laws, etc., we see immediately why all these items are out of our reach; Big Money is interfering with our lawmaking processes.
The most obvious remedy for this is a constitutional amendment that would overturn the 2010 Supreme Court decision “Citizens United,” which provides corporations the right to spend as much as they like influencing our elections. The high court found that the First Amendment’s protection of free speech applied to corporations, and now, here we are as plain U.S. citizens, disenfranchised from our democracy.
The words of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg speak for the vast majority of American voters.
