Trump and the Republicans
Here’s a “survey” distributed on social media by an extreme right-wing political organization. It’s funny how they use color to influence your vote. As if there would be any validity to it in any case.
Of further note is the conflation between Trump and the Republicans. There are plenty of people, not that I admire them, who understand that the best-case scenario is that Trump quietly disappears, the GOP removes the lies and criminality, and returns to be the party of simple ignorance and cruelty.
From the 
This does sound scary until you realize that whatever happens here and now in the United States is just a blip on the screen of world history. All would-be totalitarians ban the teaching of truth, but, even if they are successful in the short run, they never last. 
A reader sent me the meme here.
We really do have a twisted notion of what it means to want our fellows to be healthy.
Not all of our discussions on climate change need to be dark, humorless, and overly academic.
This quote here reminds me of a time when I was running my marketing services agency. I had many personal assistants through the decades, but my favorite one called me, in tears, one morning at home shortly before I left for the office. Through her spasmodic whimpering she explained that a pet, a rabbit of all things, had died and that she couldn’t muster herself to come into work.
Considering the events of the past two years, few of us have high hopes for 2022.
My wife just asked me, “Why isn’t the justice department moving against these brazen criminals who are defying congressional subpoenas?” to which I replied, “I have no more insight into this than you or the other +/- hundred million Americans who are asking that very question.” 
Scientists hope the omicron variant of COVID-19 takes us to the point of herd immunity and becomes a manageable, albeit permanent, feature of human society, like the flu.
