Love the meme here.
Keep in mind, though, that the American right-wing has a humungous appetite for Ron DeSantis, a total ban on abortion, don’t say gay, removing black history from schools and colleges, forbidding cities from putting COVID restrictions into place, and rejecting climate science.
To a question currently circulating on social media: What item from the 1970s should be brought back? an old friend answered: a counterculture.
I found that quite thought-provoking. Don’t we have a counterculture today?
It’s possible that we have one, but it doesn’t look like it did 50 years ago?
Speaking for myself, the ultimate victory of progressive values in today’s world is all we require. I don’t need long-haired freaky people; I need whatever Bernie Sanders (to pick a progressive at random) and everything that he stands for in terms of environmental stewardship, social equity, quality education and healthcare for all, a solid attempt at world peace, human rights, a single-tiered justice system, etc.
What Pete Seeger said here was undoubtedly true during his day, i.e., the last quarter of the 20th Century, when conservatives had defensible values.
As a progressive, I didn’t agree with those values, but I enjoyed worthwhile discussions with intelligent individuals on the rightful role of government in our lives, equal rights for all, the legitimacy of the military-industrial complex, the regulation of free trade and the use of subsidies, trade-off between and the use of America’s strength in protecting our financial interests at the expense of the world’s people.
Now, most “conservatives” can’t spell “military-industrial complex.” Today’s issues are banning abortion, rejecting climate science, locking up Dr. Fauci, covering up the actual source of the January 6th insurrection, and protecting George Santos’ seat in congress. I’d rather have a root-canal operation than a protracted conversation on any of these subjects.
The meme here is funny, and people who profit from spreading hatred are disgusting human beings.
That said, there is nothing unique, or even rare about Rush Limbaugh. He’s one of an uncountable number of the brigade of the nasty media whores who came into prominence over the last 30 years, since +/- the dawn of Fox News in the 1990s, whose stock in trade is making hateful, gullible fools that much more mean and stupid.
If Limbaugh deserves to burn in hell, so do dozens of the other similar hate-monger harlots, not to mention the majority of Republicans in the U.S. Congress.
If you’re looking for a bit of inspiration re: loving our planet, this may be for you.
It’s a reminder that achieving a sustainable civilization is worth the effort required.
In his early campaigning leading up to the 2024 presidential election, Trump calls for certifying ‘patriotic’ teachers, and cutting funds to schools teaching CRT.
Obviously, this has legs among today’s extreme right-wing, as it speaks to a stark differentiation from the “radical left.”
Having come from a Quaker school, I have to laugh when I think of how any of my teachers would have reacted to being restricted as to how or what they taught. Approaching education with political blinders on was the very last thing that our school (Penn Charter in Philadelphia) would consider.
In fact, though my parents were distinctly conservative, they somehow knew that trusting a 300-year-old academic institution to do the right thing was a solid idea.
The poem here seems timely in our world, doesn’t it?
If our civilization is to survive, it will because there are plenty of folks who, whether natively or by way of being taught, are willing to “be the ones.”
Anything to stay in the news, especially if it avoids humiliation.
Fortunately, U.S. voters have completely lost their appetitive for this vile pettiness.
These folks write:I’ve been anti-war since I was a small boy. So strange to find myself wanting to arm the Ukrainians so as to boot the Russian aggressors out of their country.
I suppose my feeling are rooted in damage minimization. Letting Putin slaughter countless innocent people is not an option here.
From this: Donald Trump, a billionaire, is fighting NY Attorney General Letitia James over a measly $110K check (msn.com)
Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder discusses the news announced by President Biden that the U.S. and allies are sending tanks to Ukraine to aid its fight against Vladimir Putin’s army
