Here’s another quote from one of America’s top five or ten heroes, Dwight D. Eisenhower, concerning the proper role of government, and, in particular, the impact of our political parties in our lives. Keep in mind: a) It came from a Republican, b) It’s only 65 years old, and c) It describes precisely today’s GOP.
Yes, but that was before–75 years before–a) our educational system had failed, b) we had developed the means to mass disseminate complete, anti-scientific garbage, and c) levels of greed and selfishness had risen to a point that the world had ever seen.
Some of the crap readers send me is more ludicrous than others. Here’s a prize winner. The left fears blacks and whites coming together?
It’s just another indication of how totally ignorant Americans have become. No public figure would have made such an inane remark as recently as five years ago.
Last time I looked, every single one of the White nationalist groups (Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, KKK, neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, skinheads, etc.) were aligning themselves with Donald Trump. 
Remember the group of sub-humans shown here? Do they look like they’re promoting interracial harmony?
I loved this quote when I first came upon it many years ago, long before COVID-19.
Now it has a much more powerful meaning that no one at the time would have considered possible, i.e., that more than 20% of Americans would refuse to get vaccinated and thus help bring the pandemic to a close, on the basis of their so-called “rights.”
It’s pathetic.
press conference to announce Green New Deal
Most people understand that the longer our civilization waits to address climate change in earnest, the more expensive it’s going to be. Moreover, the costs are not growing linearly, but exponentially.
However, there are several impediments:
• The private sector has little incentive to make this happen, because the incumbent industries, e.g., fossil fuels, are able to externalize the environmental costs. There is no tax on carbon that would serve to make clean technologies like renewable energy more competitive.
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As we know, it’s mainly the anti-vaxxers who are dropping like flies from COVID-19.
As indicted at left, there are a few other pieces of irony that work in our favor as well.
Funny.
That’s what the spokespeople for all dangerous cabals say.
How can something like this be explained?
Well, how many people in Canada and Cambodia think their governments are trying to enslave them?
The U.S. is the wealthiest country on Earth, and has all the access to vaccines it could possibly use. Unfortunately, it has also cornered the market on mean-spirited crackpots.
This is what Republican political thinking was like in the late 1950s. Now, it would be the platform of a progressive Democrat.
It suggests something that today would be subversive: that government has a responsibility to take care of its people. Now that sounds like it could have been written by Karl Marx.
These folks claim to have “re-imagined” the neighborhood EV and are looking for investors to get them into production. For those new to this industry, a NEV has a top speed of 25 MPH and is therefore intended to be sold to people with short commutes through dense traffic.
When I got into this field in 2008, these vehicles, then called LSEVs (low speed EVs) were a hot topic. A typical alt-car expo had five or ten such offerings–all in the prototype stage. To date, there have been, I’ll guess, a few hundred thousand actually sold in the U.S.
What the world found was that, outside of gated communities, there was no market for them. Almost all driving involves roads on which 25 MPV is not only inappropriate; it’s dangerous. There really are no “short commutes through uniformly dense traffic.” There is a hair’s breadth between the market for golf carts and that for full-speed automobiles.
I will be quite surprised if these people ever get into the manufacturing stage.
