What American Republicans Stand For
I wouldn’t say the Republican party “stands for nothing.”
It stands for overt racism, the wanton destruction of the natural environment, the demolition of public education, and the rejection of science.
Most of all, it stands for Donald Trump and his claim that the 2020 election was stolen. It will ignore all the facts to the contrary, and it will happily discard rule of law, if that’s what’s required to help Trump beat the mounting criminal evidence against him, and get him back into the White House.
An old school chum, now the president of a major university in Texas, says, “The only person in America who makes (Texas governor) Greg Abbott look good is (Florida governor) Ron DeSantis.”
I too am skeptical of people who claim to be experts in cryptocurrencies. But my suspicions are raised even higher when the same people have previously been experts in epidemiology and constitutional law.
It’s important to keep in mind that the United States is making real social progress, even in the face of all the stupidity.
There appears to be so much nonsense in today’s political strategies here in the U.S. Obviously the far-right wing is getting great mileage out of ridiculing the idea of “wokeness,” a word that hateful and ignorant people use to discredit the values that all Americans used to share: fairness, compassion, and decency. But do you seriously want to direct this anger against Disney?
Was Russia’s support of Donald Trump and its intervention in our 2016 elections an act of deliberate sabotage?
The concept here is one we frequently hear from grocery store clerks, landscape architects, right-wing news anchors, and others whose lack of scientific training render them completely incapable of “questioning the science.”
What value does the sign add?
It’s easy to hate the values of the present-day Republican party. Today’s Democratic party, though its morals are higher, is also hard to admire, if only for its amazing ineptitude at political messaging.
They’re underpaid. Their efforts to discipline unruly students is thwarted at every turn. They bring in their own supplies, and spend countless unpaid hours on lesson planning.
