The “Dismantling” of America and Its People
Here’s a short video from actor Richard Gere that speaks a few concise words to Americans.
How did we get to this horrible point?
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Which Republican Ticket Is Less Putrid in 2028?
The answer to the question at hand: I’m not sure.
Yet it certainly appears that this country has completely lost its appetite for the criminal insanity of today’s Republican party. We’re tired of the lies, the hate, the indifference to human suffering, the lawlessness, and most of all the utter humiliation our formerly great country receives on the world stage on a near-daily basis.
Compensating cop-beaters for the prison time that hundreds of judges handed down may appeal to a few of the most stupid and depraved Americans, but good luck trying to sell that to sane, decent people.
We have no interest in being slapped in the face every minute for another four years.
Where the Republican Party Has Gone Since Eisenhower in the 1950s
If you look this up, you’ll see that it’s correct. Eisenhower was a fierce advocate of the following:
- Infrastructure, e.g., the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, creating the 41,000-mile Interstate Highway System to improve national defense and commerce
- Social Programs, Social Security, minimum wage, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
- Fiscal Policy, lower taxes, a balanced budget, and reduced government regulation, aiming to limit federal intervention in local affairs
- Foreign Policy, nuclear deterrence and relying on the CIA for covert operations
- Civil Rights, desegregation of the military and the armed forces, support for the Brown v. Board of Education decision
Voter ID
My only problem with this is the U.S. Constitution, which clearly lays out the laws by which our elections will be conducted, i.e., it’s up to each of the 50 states to make and implement their own procedures.
Obviously, conspiracy theorists, at the direction of Newsmax and their peers, are convinced that there is a significant amount of voter fraud, but the fact is that there have been only a few dozen incidents of proven fraud out of the last one billion votes cast.
Yes, we could have an amendment proposed and passed into law that changes all of this, but until then, I’m going to support the U.S. Constitution, which has done right by the American people since its passage in 1789.
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EPA Rolls Back Regulations on Heavy Metals from Coal-Fired Power Plants
Yes, our atmosphere and our waterways will soon be seeing increasing concentrations of mercury, lead, cadmium, selenium, and arsenic, not to mention other neurotoxins like a wide array of radioactive isotopes, so that the Trump administration can placate billionaire donors.
But seriously, what are a few million agonizing deaths from these carcinogens compared with huge campaign donations?
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Why Would Republicans Cut Literacy Funding?
You may be asking yourself why Missouri Republicans did this.
Well, what’s in it for these people to foster a generation of bright, literate youngsters with a thirst for learning?
Absolutely zero.
Wanna-Be Dictators Understand Something that You Should Too
To be successful, would-be fascists need as much ignorance in the population as possible.
Keep this in mind next time you receive news about the dismantling of scientific institutions and the destruction of public education.
Birthright Citizenship
I don’t want to see the Supreme Court author legislation (as this is what congress does), and I certainly don’t want to see the Supreme Court author legislation that violates the U.S. Constitution.
If the American people want to ban birthright citizenship, they should elect representatives who will pass a constitutional amendment.
Let’s Deal with REAL Problems
One of the most pathetic themes in modern-day American life is the way we get so upset about things that have essentially zero bearing on the quality of our lives.
Look, we do have real problems. Real problems: Environmental collapse, nuclear war, the devastation of public education, the growing chasm between rich and poor, people dying of treatable diseases.
But rooting out the (very few) trans people from the U.S. military should be of no concern to any of us.
One More Way that Trump Could Possibly Remain in Office Will Come at the Cost of a Constitutional Amendment that Flies in the Teeth of the Wisdom of the Founding Fathers
Having a sociopathic criminal rewriting the Constitution sounds like a good idea to tens of millions of semiliterate Americans.
