“Never Let the Unacceptable Become Acceptable” — Good Advice, but I Have Bad News
I hate to say it, but this is what we do all day long in the United States.
We didn’t just jump from the sanity and intellectual distinction of the Obama presidency into where we are now:
• On the verge of re-electing a president who is a pathological liar, was impeached twice, committed fraud, extortion, witness intimidation, election tampering, seditious conspiracy, and stole top secret documents.
• Banning hundreds of books that well-educated American schoolchildren have been reading for generations.
• Overturning Roe v. Wade and banning abortion in many states.
• Destroying our education system, installing an Education Secretary whose overt mission was to crush public schools into impoverishment to forward her dreams of parochial and charter schools, as well as, home schooling.
• Trying to resuscitate the coal industry and extending the reign of fossil fuels in general, as scientists’ predictions for our climate future become even more grim.
Again, none of this just fell out of the sky; it’s been slowly building. Every time Trump got away with a crime, he became that much more emboldened to commit an even greater one.
Where this is going to go from here is anybody’s guess. It doesn’t look good, because there doesn’t appear to be a lower limit. Each atrocity ushers in the next in order. Wish I had better news to report.
It’s good to know that we live in a country in which certain people have moral principles that inform their behavior, and Alexander Vindman is certainly among them.
After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct
Here’s an idea for 
Here’s an article by Robert Reich entitled: “
People say there is no right or wrong between the two main U.S. political parties, or that they are essentially identical to one another.
Keep in mind that about 35% of American voters don’t see it this way at all. And there is nothing that Trump can do–no lie he can tell, no crime he can commit–that will cause his supporters to lose faith in him.
The meme here speaks an important issue in U.S. politics.
The meme here came from a reader, to which I respond:
Almost a decade after Donald Trump entered the U.S. political scene, there are still people all around the world who wonder why the American media industry continues to provide oxygen to a criminal conman in his quest for re-election. The answer, of course, is money. Trump attracts attention, and attention attracts dollars.
