First of all, I believe there are far fewer of these crackpots than are commonly thought to exist. The presence of social media serves to distort this.

To answer the question, there are QAnon conspiracy theorists who simply believe that science of all types is a web of lies.  The theory goes that scientists in all disciplines, health, climate, transportation, infrastructure, etc., are paid to publish papers proving ideas that profit the wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet.

If you will recall, someone has supposedly invented a carburetor that enabled cars to get 200 miles to the gallon, but it was buried by the auto industry.  This whole phenomenon isn’t new.

On top of all this, we live in a time that features an appalling lack of scientific education.  If you go on Facebook right this minute, you’ll run across dozens of different fraudulent claims for devices that generate electricity out of thin air, and tons of other crap that violate the laws of thermodynamics.

 

 

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The world could accept a radical change in The United States’ protocol for administering vaccinations if it were made by scientists, i.e., people trained in the eradication of potentially lethal diseases.  Our problem, and it’s one that’s unique to America, is that our health policies are made by a recovering heroin addict with no background in the subject — a crackpot with parts of his brain missing, having been eaten by a parasitic worm.

Fortunately for us all, no other country on Earth operates this way.

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When the leaders of Saudi Arabia aren’t dismembering journalists for their opposing points of view politically, they’re making trillions of dollars from selling oil. The idea that they’re at all concerned about the environment is ludicrous.

It would also be interesting to know how they plan to water these trees that they are (ostensibly) planting in the desert.

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I believe the subject matter of the video here will ultimately play a large contributing factor to bringing down Trump.  His referring to Somalis as “garbage” and his doubling down on it here is abhorrent to most Americans.

Yes, his racist MAGA base is cheering him on for his demonization of people from a poor country with black skin, but most Americans can see that this comes directly from the playbook of all fascist leaders.

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I doubt too many people, idiots or otherwise, believe that folks coming across the border with no skills or familiarity with English are stealing their jobs, or that they’re getting mortgages and buying up all the property.

In many ways we are a nation of gullible morons, but there’s a limit here.

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As a Trump supporter said the other day, “What he’s doing right now is exactly why I voted for him.”

If Trump can continue to heap misery on Somali-Americans and other non-whites, his base will continue its love affair with him.

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When I argue for environmental responsibility and the decarbonization of the grid, I often say:

I know there are people who believe, perhaps because this is what they’re told by Donald Trump, that climate change is a hoax. But are there people who don’t believe in cancer? In the importance of our country’s investing in the industry that is destined to dominate the 21st Century?

Trump will be gone soon.  Maybe you and I will be gone (in a different sense) before the effects of this administration’s folly in the EV and cleantech industry are fully felt.

But it’s inevitable, unless we turn this around, and soon.

 

 

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It would be nice if we could see that all this horrific behavior on Trump’s part was eroding his base, but that doesn’t seem to be what’s really happening.

Are innocent citizens being harassed by ICE goons? Yes. Is the U.S. committing war crimes by bombing boats off the Venezuelan coast? Of course.  But Trump’s approval rating seems to be holding fast at about 36%.

It appears that Trump is going down, but not because he doesn’t have a loyal fan base of voters; rather, because certain members of congress have “seen enough” and don’t want their legacies to read, “He supported a wanna-be dictator until the very end.”

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I like what the lawyer said here, though I would argue that the concept goes even further:

• All of Earth’s people need to be treated fairly and equally.  We have people worth hundreds of billions of dollars, living on the same planet as 1.5 billion people who can’t get a clean glass of water to drink. This is morally wrong.

• The United States has no more right to wage an aggressive war against Venezuela than Russia had a right to invade Ukraine.

• Public education should be supported, not destroyed.

• The death penalty is not a part of a civilized society.

• Science should form the underpinnings of government policy.

• Corporations should not be able to buy favorable lawmaking.

• Big Oil should be prohibited from using our atmosphere as its own private sewer.

One more thing: woke is a win-win proposition.  Woke countries, e.g., Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, most of the rest of Europe, Canada, New Zealand, Iceland, and the rest are perennially at the very top of the world happiness rankings. Their governments actually care about their people, and their people care about each other and the quality of our environment.

This is a recipe for happiness. Human beings did not evolve over the last 200K years to become selfish, greedy, uneducated, impoverished, racist slobs.

There is a good reason that the United States is mid-pack in terms of happiness, and that very few Americans care one way or the other.  We are almost completely indifferent to the wellbeing of others.

 

 

 

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