There are so many unlovely features of the Trump-centric GOP that it’s hard to name the most offensive one. Having said that, a solid candidate is their penchant for not paying bills.
Trump has had a deuce of a time hiring competent lawyers. Of course, one reason for this is that honest and talented people want to have nothing to do with him. Another is that they know they’d never get paid.
There is no way to answer the question posed here. My personal suspicion is that most of the far-right personalities in American politics are insincere, and are simply catering to a constituency full of hateful imbeciles.
A reader asks, How can the Republicans bill themselves as the party of freedom when all they do is take things away from people? Voting, books, abortion rights, Social Security, Medicare, saying ‘gay,” teaching history.
As far as I can see, the only answer is that they appeal to angry and selfish white people, whose sense of the word “freedom” does not go any further than their own interests.
I’m reminded of a wonderful bumper sticker: “FOX NEWS: We make you mean and stupid.”
Sorry, I’m lost here.
Is there a contingent of working Americans who are paying into Social Security but don’t care if they’re paid back when they retire? Are there retirees who would like to see their incomes fall, who prefer to live on diets of ramen and cat food?
I know there are fantastically stupid people out there, but really?
I’ve speculated previously that it’s close to impossible for an uprising of any real significance to crop up in the United States in which armed Trump supporters take to the streets and do any real damage in response to the criminal prosecution of their leader.
The only way this could go wrong is if a large number of law enforcement and military personnel are actually Trumpers themselves, which, as we see at left, is not impossible to image.
Keep in mind that facts don’t matter to these people; the fact that each of 60+ different courts saw no evidence of a rigged election does nothing whatsoever to shatter the Big Lie in these folks’ minds.
The vast majority of 2GreenEnergy readers are too young to have watched The Andy Griffith Show of the 1960s.
Having said that, this excerpt from one of its best episodes speaks to guns and policing. Worth a watch.
An important element of a sustainable society is one that has respect for, rather than fear of, law enforcement.
Is there a contest, one with fabulous prizes, for the climate change meme that represents its author as the biggest imbecile? If so, perhaps we have a winner here.
If Al Gore actually does own oceanfront property, with an understanding that, depending on where it’s situated, it will be underwater by the end of the century, that hardly makes him insincere re: his concern about global warming.
As any person with a junior high school education can explain, what’s causing sea-level rise is a combination of thermal expansion of the oceans’ waters as they warm, and the melting of the ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland.
If I were a son of the late Gene Wilder, I’d be aggressively suing everyone who’s making my father seem like a blithering idiot.
At left is something from a reader on Facebook.
The idea that there is a significant number of people living in the U.S. who “hate America” is one that can only be held to be true by total morons. I think that’s why nobody will repost this; most people have a natural aversion to looking like fools. Virtually all of us either love America as it exists, or love America enough to want to see it become a better country, a more decent and compassionate place to live.
I don’t mean to single out John Barberio, the apparent author of the meme, as a “moron” or “fool.” An entire political party, representing about 55% of the total electorate, is constantly criticized for “hating America.” That’s the level of intelligence into which we’ve fallen.
There is a point to be made here, though it’s obscured by the ridiculous use of “nobody” and “everyone.”
We are surrounded by people whose life work is improving conditions for each resident of this planet–now, and for generations to come.
I wrote this post, however, to underscore an idea that has great importance as we move forward and our environment continues to degrade, i.e., the rich will be far less affected by all this than “the other 99%.”
Here’s a good example of what I’ve been writing about since the launch of 2GreenEnergy.com in 2009: the rich economic value that lies in the transition to renewable energy. I hope readers will check out this report from the Pew Charitable Trust: Wind Farms Deliver Economic Jolt to Rural Middle America.
