One of America’s Intractable Problems
As suggested here, a large and receptive audience of ignorant and hateful people is an absolute requirement for the success of people like Alex Jones and Donald Trump.
That’s an insoluble problem in America, when you think about it. Jones is soon to be bankrupt, and Trump will be facing a variety of criminal charges, which will remove them both from the scene, but all that ignorance and hate aren’t going anywhere.
What will rise from the ashes? There is only one possible answer: smarter versions of Jones/Trump, people who have learned from the mistakes of their predecessors, but who tap into the audience’s enduring characteristics.
Trump does spread conspiracy theories, and Trump will pay a heavy price.
There is no doubt that the danger that the U.S. lives with on a day-to-day basis has been reduced with Trump out of office, and, to a degree, that really is a relief.
Philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti was a figure to whom few of us growing up in the late 20th Century had any real exposure. Sadly, his impact on our culture has only diminished since.
The mobilization of Big Oil, and its impact on the political scene in the early part of the 20th Century, resulted in the destruction of the enormous network of electricity-based public transportation that stood in place at the time.
On a number of occasions, we’ve discussed the dilemma in which the U.S. Justice Department finds itself over indicting Donald Trump on charges of stealing classified government documents, sedition, and election tampering.
The more ignorant the man, the more obedient he is, and the more absolutely he places confidence in those who lead him.
The defamation settlement of just short of $1 billion that the jury ordered Alex Jones to pay his victims may just another titillating piece of news, but it’s also possible that it represents a turning point in American justice.
Great cartoon.
As the ultra-right political movement in the U.S. continues to move even further to the fringes, human rights are finding themselves squeezed. On the chopping block now, for the first time in the last 50 years, are women’s abortion rights.
