We actually do have a few senators and representatives who seem to measure up to what Dr. King is looking for here, but they stand among a slim minority. American elections are driven by enormous sums of money that are donated to the campaigns of fundamentally dishonest people, who return political favors in exchange.
Unless we’re able to change this, we would be very foolish to expect any shift in the basic character of our lawmakers.
Here’s something from a local woman.
I had forgotten that this ever existed. Which seems like a better idea: a) install a high-end water filter under your kitchen sink for a few hundred dollars, or b) eat up part of your kitchen with a water dispenser, hire a service in which a company processes tap water, insert it into five-gallon jugs in such a way that doesn’t introduce bacteria, put it onto a truck that gets perhaps 10 MPH, then have some guy come into your house once a week to change out the 40-pound bottles, and occasionally disposing of old bottles in favor of new ones.
Thought I’d share the cartoon here, because it certainly does seem that this is what’s happening.
Sadly, the process is moving forward at a pace thousands of times slower than an ocean wave gathers steam and ultimately breaks, but it’s becoming more clear with each passing day that Trump led an attack on the U.S. government.
A reader answers the question above, followed by my comments in italics:
A reader asks, “What is wrong with Republicans? Don’t any of them get diabetes?”
The problem is that these congresspeople represent people who don’t think that government should be in the business of doing anything good for the American people. The Fox News crowd believes that once people rely on government for anything, the whole country turns into Cuba. (more…)
From Energy Analyst Robert Rapier:
The question here is remarkable in that it could have been posed at any time since humankind formed its first agrarian societies about 10,000 years ago, and that this concern has recently intensified with what has happened in Russia, China, Turkey, Brazil, Hungary, the Philippines, and, most recently of course, the United States.
To attempt an answer, I would say that, unless your religion requires you to choose one or the other, the world seems to have been made in such a way to be completely indifferent to what human beings do on it, to and for one another.
The collection of extreme wealth and power by a very few amoral people suggests that, regardless of what kind and intelligent people may have preferred, we are moving through a century that features slowly growing oligarchy and environmental ruin.
I offer this not as a prediction of gloom but rather as a challenge to us all.
This is a hot topic right now, and there are numerous perspectives. According to some jackass on Sunday morning news TV, that’s “up to the American people, and they don’t care.”
Wrong on both accounts. (more…)
When I came across this meme on India’s roadways, I wrote: “Does this represent a legitimate path to sustainability, via a new use of waste plastic?”
As George Carlin noted in the video below, we tend to use language that separates us from the punishing blows of harsh realities, and as time passes, our use of euphemisms grows ever more intense. (more…)
