In an average month, I meet probably five people who traveled here from another country. Unless there is a good reason to avoid the topic, I like to ask how Trump is regarded at home.
Universally, the answer is that Trump is a despicable joke. I use the word “universally” in the literal sense; I’ve yet to speak with someone who has anything good to say about the current U.S. president.
Don’t you just love the mom’s eyes in this political cartoon?
Pope Leo is continuing–and expanding–the trend in the Catholic Church towards compassion for all of humankind.
This, of course, runs afoul of Trump and the MAGA base that, for instance, regards immigrants as “vermin.”
Many us who would like to see Trump removed from office and criminally prosecuted would love to leave the filth and shame that the president has wrought upon us and move to places like New Zealand.
Why are we not doing that? We’re not filthy rich. We would not leave behind our children and our network of doctors.
Moreover, some of us, and I honor them, just want to stay and fight.
I laughed out loud when he first came on the political scene.
I called my mother immediately and asked, “Isn’t it pretty much a requirement that a presidential candidate be at least a fairly decent human being? This guy is clearly a terrible person. Did I miss something here? George W. Bush was a moron, but he wasn’t a slime bag.”
There is nothing dumb about the question posed at left. Democracies fail, falling into “banana republics” constantly. The rate at which democracies become tyrannies is so great that some of them never make the news. Can you tell me anything about the governments of Eritrea or Chad?
What makes the situation in the United States is, yes, that it’s happening here in the United States, the very last place anyone would have suspected it.
You might have thought that Americans wouldn’t have voted for their nation to become Russia or North Korea.
You would have been wrong.
We all understand that there are ultra-conservatives living all around us, but does anyone truly believe that our schoolteachers are ruining our society by teaching children the truth about U.S. and world history? Science? Current events?
Slavery and Jim Crow laws were bad. Fascism is bad. Our scientists are telling us that CO2 emissions are causing world temperatures to rise, destroying our planet’s capacity to support life.
Whom do these concepts upset?
Isn’t there enough hatred in the world without proactively generating more?
Could this be wrongly attributed to Atkinson?
Here’s an idea:
Give all descendants of slaves free college, with stipends, like they do in northern Europe.
Within a generation, we’ll have millions of young, highly educated black people, contributing to the work force at much higher levels than they are today.
It’s hard to think of a bad trait that Trump doesn’t manifest.
He certainly has pettiness and vindictiveness nailed.
