“The Bad Seed”
I highly recommend this movie.
And yes, its relevance today is its depiction of evil.
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Removing Trump
Personally, I’d much rather see Trump removed from office for his criminal/traitorous behavior than his insanity, but, as my wife would say, “Whatever gets the job done.”
Ideas of the Political Left
Apparently, it hasn’t dawned on this fellow that the “ideas of the political left” are functioning perfectly well in the social democracies all around the world.
By what measure?
Well, human happiness, for one.
Countries that offer their citizens taxpayer funded education, healthcare, and safety nets consistently score at the very top of the World Happiness Rankings. It seems that people thrive in communities that take care of one another.
American Democracy
What journalist Chris Hedges says here is true, but I’m afraid we have a bigger and more immediate problem with the mayhem being created by Donald Trump, in an apparent effort to forestall the 2026 midterm elections.
Is Consumer Protection Necessary?
Consumer protection safeguards buyers from unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent business practices through laws, regulations, and agencies. Anyone who believes that corporations will police themselves must not be living on the same planet that you and I are.
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On Obediance
At left are the words of Erich Fromm, whom I would have called an early psychologist rather than a philosopher, but I suppose the boundaries are loose.
In the main, most Americans, me included, are rule-followers, which is why we stop at red lights. If our scientists tell us to have our children vaccinated against smallpox or polio, that’s precisely what we do, regardless of what we’re told by the crackpot in charge of human health.
Having said that, the uprising of a fascist autocracy in the United States is not going to be acceptable for the vast majority of Americans.
May this always be the case.
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I’ll Bet You’re Waiting Too
Thought this was clever.
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What Our First Amendment Rights Actually Mean
I’m a strong believer in our right to free speech, as modified by the Supreme Court over the centuries. That includes the Trump supporters who want to call me a commie radical leftist because of my progressive beliefs (that mirror about two-thirds of the American electorate).
Trump in Desperation
The moron who composed the meme here actually got one thing right. Trump has shown us the endgame that many of us saw coming, i.e., desperation. He knows that the midterms will almost definitely result in his being removed from office, so he’s turning Minnesota into a war zone, so as to justify martial law.
He will stop at nothing.
Noam Chomsky on Responsibility of Intellectuals
This sounds good on the surface, but the problem is that average Americans aren’t exposed to the thoughts of intellectuals, and even if they were, they a) couldn’t care less about them, or b) would reject them as “leftist propaganda,” or “elitist.”
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