To be a Trump supporter at this stage means actively dismissing the many voices of reason, like that of former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley (see left).
I’m having a hard time understanding how a significant number of Americans who think of themselves as patriots can find a way around what Milley is saying here.
As shown here, one of the problems in discussing abortion is the lies surrounding the statistics. A significant majority (61%) of Americans support a woman’s right to choose abortion in all or most cases.
These is no denying the truth here.
I’m reminded of a story about the child prodigy Frederic Chopin. By the time he was eight, he’d been a pupil of every piano teacher in Warsaw, Poland, the closest city to his birthplace. When the teachers had the occasion to gather, they would often talk about young Chopin, many remarking that he had “bad habits” and that they considered it their duty to “break him” of them.
Fortunately, one brave and candid voice rose among them, and offered the following: “If we’re going to be honest here, we all need to admit that he plays far better than any of us. Perhaps it’s best to leave him alone.”
Yes, it’s true that our schools are stultifying for perhaps one in a few million kids. For the rest of us, however, a solid education is a very good thing.
The word “civilized,” used as an attribute of a society,” is a gray one indeed.
It’s true that there are international laws that prohibit slavery, torture, and a wide variety of war crimes.
It’s also true that we have veterans, right here in the United States, living on the streets and dying of treatable diseases.
Reader A: Unfortunately he will not be incarcerated.
“Nothing in the world more dangerous than an idiot who thinks he’s genius?” Gimme a break.
There are idiots all over this planet who believe they are geniuses. I know several of them personally.
But they don’t have tens of millions of American voters who believe that a sociopath is the singular way to make our nation great again. Therein lies the difficulty here.
It’s hard to believe that Eisenhower’s vision for the United States, as expressed here, ever existed, let alone that it was fairly recent–and came from a Republican.
Try to imagine someone on the GOP debate stage expressing an honest concern for the people of the world.
This from senior legal analyst Andrew Weissmann.
About 35% of Americans who voted are completely fine with the fact that their leader is a career criminal.
Sure, Trump’s a despicable human being , but he’s not even rare, let alone unique, in that regard. What makes him special is that more than one-third of Americans see him as the path to our country’s greatness.
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.
