American Anti-Intellectualism
What Katie Couric says here is undeniably true.
There is a palpable resentment of educated people who understand science, and push for all the tenets of the U.S. Constitution: due process, the balance of powers, the states’ rights to regulate their elections, the emoluments clause, etc.
I believe that this can’t last forever; it’s a fad not unlike the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, that vanished just as mysteriously as it arrived.
Of course, not everyone feels that way. Check out what Isaac Asimov had to say on the matter, below.
From what we see at left, are we to infer that voters are OK with the fact that Trump is turning this country into a lawless, authoritarian state?
Most of the full-on Christians I know are politically conservative, though I doubt a single one takes it to the extreme shown at left.
Considering that their only real job is protecting and defending Trump, I’d given them high marks.
The answer to the question becomes obvious when one considers what we’ve become as a country, which, in a couple of words, is hateful and ignorant.
This country has a great deal of woes, and our lack of modern railroads is somewhere among them. Having said that, I think we need to resign ourselves to the fact that this will never get fixed. The financial (and thus political) strength of the airline industry is too massive. The cost of all the easements that would be required is astronomical. Communist countries don’t have these problems.
Shortly before my mother passed away, she and I were talking about sanctuary cities. She had lived the last decade or so of her life on a steady diet of Fox News, and so when I asked her to tell me what the term actually meant, she regurgitated what she had been told, i.e., it’s a place where an illegal immigrant who has committed a crime can go and hide without fear that the police can follow and arrest them.
Sure! Shouldn’t the U.S president, a convicted felon, be allowed to deport an innocent congressperson because she doesn’t support him? Isn’t this the American way?
Isn’t this the guy who tried to overthrow the U.S. federal government in 2021?
The guy who sent me this writes, “A Loss for the (Climate) Alarmists!”
