The South Has Everything It Needs
The problem, of course, is that most of these people couldn’t care less. They don’t need an education any more than they need a second nose.
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The MAGA Crowd Needs To Challenge Its Beliefs, Not That This Is a Real Possibility
Often here at 2GreenEnergy, we muse about how thoroughly shut off Trump’s base is from reality, and how they can’t seem to ask themselves questions that would cause them to challenge their beliefs.
If I were a Trump backer, I’d ask myself why he and so many of his closest colleagues are either in prison or are under serious criminal investigation.
In the opening statement of a series of hearings that could culminate in Rudy Giuliani’s losing his license to practice law, D.C. disciplinary counsel Hamilton Fox described Giuliani’s legal challenge to the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election as “frivolous,” and said the former president’s attorney “weaponized his law license” in an effort to “undermine the Constitution to which he, like all members of the District of Columbia Bar, took an oath to support.”
Folks, be brave! Be bold! Ask yourselves: Why are there so many blatant criminals associated with the former president, and why does it appear that Trump himself is on his way to prison? Does this traitor really merit your support as an American?
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Trump’s Going Away, But How Precisely Will This Play Out?
This is funny, but indicative of something important.
It’s possible that the erosion of Trump’s support will put us in a place where, by the time he’s indicted, most of his base will have pretty much ceased to care.
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Trump Doesn’t Think Things Through, But Now That’s Become a Problem
Ever since Donald Trump came onto the political scene in 2015 and began making outrageous statements, people have been wondering why those around him don’t prevent him from making a jackass out of himself. The answer, presumably, is some blend of “I’m scared of his wrath” and “I’m powerless to make a difference.”
What happened a few days ago, i.e., Trump’s Mar-a-Lago dinner with a white nationalist and an anti-Semite, was on par with any of the other atrocious decisions of his career. It simply reaffirms that the former president listens to no one and no thing (other than the demons that live in his head).
Tens of millions of gun nut Trump supporters are now in a position to wonder if their leader’s suggestion to abandon the Constitution (and thus the Second Amendment) will be good for them and their capacity to blow away hundreds of people per minute.
Chevron’s New Branding Campaign
Rebranding a company is an enterprise I’ve undertaken dozens, probably hundreds of times. The game here, of course, is to align the client’s organization with something that already exists in customers’ minds.
Here we see Chevron calling itself the “human energy company,” connoting, I suppose, that it exists to provide all human beings with reliable and affordable energy. Sounds fine.
The ad seen above offers a free newsletter, promising to transform its readers into “energy insiders.” That’s where I become suspicious–and actually resentful.
What type of gullible fool trusts an oil giant to guide him fairly and honestly through the issues that surround our energy future–one that is inextricably connected with global warming, and several other environmental catastrophes like ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, and lung disease?
We’re Getting Dangerously Close to the “F” Word
For some reason, most Americans find it hard to imagine that fascism is creeping into U.S. politics.
I submit that willful blindness to fascism is what makes it possible in the first place.
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Understanding Democratic Socialism
Hillsdale College writes:There’s no doubt that socialism is on the rise in America, especially among younger citizens. A recent poll showed that 70% of Millennials are either “somewhat likely” or “extremely likely” to vote socialist.
I’m heartened by this, as, if it’s true, it may mean that millennials understand that democratic socialism is what’s in place in Scandinavia and many other European countries. Moreover, there are places that perennially top the “World Happiness Rankings,” where Finland holds the rank of the happiest country in the world for the fourth consecutive year, followed by Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland and Netherlands. People (especially the rich) pay higher taxes, but:
• There is almost no homelessness
• No one dies of a treatable illness
• Everyone who wants a college education can get one
• Citizens enjoy long vacations and parental leave
• Environmental sustainability is a top priority
• Election campaigns run for a few months every few years and are not funded by billionaires and corporations
Sadly, we have plenty of organizations like Hillsdale whose mission is to keep Americans completely ignorant of facts like these.
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Understanding Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV)
A reader offers this terse note: Manchin is a f***ing idiot.
Again, I caution against conflating stupidity with the recognition of stupidity in one’s electorate.
Manchin understands what his voters want: evangelical Christianity, racism, cruelty, indifference to education and the environment, and so forth.
He may be evil, but there is no indication that he’s stupid.
Ron DeSantis Failing at Imposing Fascism
IMO, Ron DeSantis is even worse, ideologically, than Trump himself; his only point of superiority to the former president is that he’s apparently not a criminal sociopath.
But here we can see that all the fascist vitriol on Earth will not stand up to an independent judiciary.
The Presidential Oath
Donald Trump eagerly swore to uphold the oath at left …. until he needed to flush the Constitution down the toilet.
One would have hoped that such a blatantly treasonous act would have earned him the immediate censure of all Americans, and, especially, every man and woman in congress.
Nope.
