Are We Trapped Inside Trumpism?
Here’s a brief stand-up comic routine that speaks so wonderfully to the American culture here in 2023.
As you watch it, I’m sure you’ll have the same realizations that I did, i.e., it explains the entirety of Trumpism: I have God-given rights that woke, educated sissies can’t take away, and if that means death and destruction to other people, I simply don’t care.
I also approve of the comedian’s closing statement, which, to paraphrase, is I don’t wish him harm; I simply want him magically removed from civilized society.
Who doesn’t?
The problem, of course, is that “magic” doesn’t exist in the real world. If we want hateful ignorance removed from our society, it’s going to take hard work, in particular, restoring some level of quality in what’s left of our educational system. Are we able to commit to that?
When we see a video like the one here, in which 
The game industry was no match for the legislation that ultimately banned “Jarts,” the lawn game of the late 20th Century, a cross between horseshoes and darts, when a tragic accident took the life of a child.
As we can see here, the root of bigotry is fear, at least according to Bertrand Russell.
When my son was perhaps 11, I took him camping for a few days in the High Sierras with some friends. We needed to buy permits at the regional ranger station, and I noticed that it was replete with cross-sections of a few of the great old trees that had fallen and had been examined by scientists. What can we learn from biologic history?
All the tragedy in American society: the erosion of the middle class, environmental degradation, gun violence, bigotry, educational collapse, authoritarianism, etc., makes one wonder if there are any areas of improvement over the last few decades.
I met a woman just now who believes that nature always repairs itself. An example she offered was that our local lake (see left), after several years of severe drought, is now full due to the atmospheric river storms that brought record rainfall to the region. “I’m dry,” she said in a sad voice, imitating what the lake told Nature. “Don’t worry,” Nature replied cheerfully. “I’ll send you some rain.”
These people certainly made the prosecution’s job easy.
The author of the meme here certainly makes a good point, but I’m not too sure about the “beyond comprehension” part.
In “The Art of War,” Sun Tzu wrote: “An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.”
