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Trump Rally (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe)

In a recent post I presented the concept that there are, for all practical purposes, three distinct political philosophies existing in the U.S. right now: progressives, traditional Republicans, and Trumpists.

This is why the GOP is facing an uphill battle in 2024:

A majority of Americans, albeit a slim one, have liberal values, and

conservatives are split between those who are selfish and cruel, but by-and-large intelligent, and those who are hateful and stupid.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s a video that presents an overview of the $757.5 million settlement reached by Dominion Voting Systems and Fox.

This is the first flake of snow of what is about to become a full-on avalanche.

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I wish people would stop calling it “hush money” and start referring to it as “falsifying business records.”

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The meme here is a good representation of how stupid people sound when the “research” they have supposedly conducted runs counter to the findings of science.

It’s also a reminder that we live among people who honestly believe that American education is indistinguishable from propaganda, that our schools and colleges crank out socialists, and that our kids would have better, stronger minds if they simply skipped education altogether and entered the workforce at a young age.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

It seems that there are three distinct political philosophies existing in the U.S. right now:

Progressives, who are calling for the decarbonization of our transportation and energy sectors, simply because this is what our scientists are begging us to do, so as to avert catastrophe.

Traditional Republicans, whose values include small government and personal accountability.  They tend to be skeptical of climate science, even though they may understand that rising levels of CO2 are responsible for global warming. They’re likely to dismiss progressives as alarmists whose main motivation is dismantling American capitalism.

Trumpists, who take all this one step further.  They reject everything that runs counter to what they’re told by the former president, including the outright rejection of the scientific disciplines that affect public policy, e.g., climate and epidemiology. They support their beliefs with the fact that there are web sites that assert that the planet is actually cooling, that the pandemic is a government-driven hoax, etc., and that there are “news” channels that broadcast this disinformation.

As suggested by the drawing above, it’s this last group that causes most of the trouble that those of us in the other two parties face.  For instance, if  Trumpists didn’t exist, there would be near-unanimous demand for common sense gun laws, and we would put an end to most of the mass shootings that are robbing us of our loved ones.  This is especially upsetting in the case of our small children, whose bodies are blasted to bits because weapons of war are universally available, even to those who may be criminally insane.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Not unlike the dog shown here, I’m suspicious that Donald Trump doesn’t actually need the massive donations that he’s requesting (and receiving) from the millions of gullible morons who support him.

Star Trek’s Mr. Spock  says it nice here.

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From reader Brian Farrell:  Fox hosts won’t have to apologize on air for broadcasting lies…not even once!

I was frustrated to see that Dominion Voting Systems settled out of court, but it’s a bit early to start the lamenting.  Fox is still facing lawsuits from a rich variety of plaintiffs.  See below:

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Mis-Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee gets an “F” for poor voting record., including denying the results of the 2020 election. He joined efforts to sign the Texas amicus brief that sought to overturn the presidential election results decided by millions of voters across multiple states.

To be honest, the only reason I’m writing this post is because it’s an excuse to use the photo here.  If this guy doesn’t look the part of an election denier/criminal, I really don’t know who does.

If he weren’t a Tennessee Republican in Congress, he would be perfectly suited for organizing an Army firing squad or operating his state’s electric chair.

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Here’s a former GOP U.S. representative who says that reforming his party can’t be done, and that it’s a waste of time even thinking about it.

I have to admit that this actually appears to be the case.  Supporting Trump’s Big Lie, calling for more guns, banning books and abortion, promoting fossil fuels, destroying public education–all these acts of authoritarianism are driving the Republican party further from the even-tempered democracy that the vast majority of Americans love.

Moreover, it’s an issue of big vs. small government.  If you say you want government out of your life, that’s fine, but you’re now saying you want government to regulate women’s reproductive lives and command our teachers to follow certain school curricula?

Having said all this, the current GOP platform is so nonsensical and self-contradictory, as well as grossly unpopular to Americans that live outside the South, that one has to think that change is in the offing.

The prospect of a general election will cause the Republican National Committee to start asking itself how well a fascist platform is going to play with educated people in the coastal states.

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What Russian author / Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn seems to be implying here is that, in every society, there is tension between “the lie” that government is spreading and those who refuse to accept it.

In the present-day U.S., the lie might be that our authoritarian ways provide us the path towards a better life.

Banning controversial books, removing women’s rights, pumping guns into society, suppressing progressive voters, convincing us that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, promoting the consumption of fossil fuels, supporting white nationalism, and destroying public education–none of these things will bring about a higher quality of life for the common American.

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