This is Germany’s Alice Weidel, a politician from Germany’s right-wing extremist party, Alternative for Germany. She studied economics and finance in college.
Who could possibly care what she thinks about climate change?
Here’s “A thought for today,” from A-Word-A Day:
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. – Abraham Maslow
Maslow is best known for his “hierarchical needs,” which I always thought was excellent. The statement here is a part of that theory; it’s what “self-actualization” means.
Incredibly powerful, IMO.
If you want to watch a video to learn what the ultra-right-wing Hillsdale “College” says about the decline of the American citizen, you’ll have to Google it, because I’m not going to link it.
We often discuss the World Happiness Rankings, and how the Scandinavian countries are consistently at the top.
It’s interesting, as I learned when I visited a customer’s home in Denmark, that kids don’t start school until they’re seven years old. Does this contribute to happiness?
As my friend told me, “The rat-race starts soon enough. Yes, the French and the Germans are ahead of us academically for a while, but by the time our kids are in high school, we’ve completely caught up. Why not let them be kids?”
Yet there must be some who admonish that children’s minds are like sponges, soaking up whatever’s in the vicinity. Would you rather it be cartoons or arithmetic/reading?
Also, there is the subject of socialization, which is why common wisdom would suggest that there is value in having four- and five-year-olds growing up surrounded by the peers.
I honestly don’t know.
What changed the world forever in 2016 and set Trump’s sociopathic criminality loose on this planet was Hillary Clinton’s flippant remark to the effect that Trump supporters were “deplorable” human beings (see below).
Guess what? Nobody wants to be told that they are wrong, stupid, or despicable. Most of us learned this somewhere along the line, and one would have hoped that her Wellesley College / Yale University education would have clued her into this important fact.
Human civilization would be in a completely different place today had she simply said, “I will be a president for all Americans, regardless of their wealth, physical and mental health, ideology, or level of education.”
In today’s United States, the only solution we allow is making rich people richer.
Things like climate change mitigation, affordable healthcare, dealing with hunger and poverty, and quality education are ignored, based on the false presumption that government can do nothing good.
I thought the meme was funny, and, like all forms of humor, it works because it’s at least partially based on truth.
Progressives actually do care about the wellbeing of others, and when it’s being denied, we’re not happy.
Does this impact our personal happiness? Maybe. But it’s far better than being a cold, cruel, selfish ass****.
. . . that appeals to hateful idiots.
Occasionally, a reader will tell me that I must have too much time on my hands, otherwise, I wouldn’t write blog posts on subjects that are fairly unimportant.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Nathan W. Pyle. Well played, sir!
The rapid decay in the Republican party’s moral fiber is one of the most shocking and disgusting phenomena in American history.
