This Concludes This Episode…..
No it doesn’t.
Trump leaves office in a country half of whose population believes that the 2020 election was rigged, and that he was illegally removed from office by some mysterious conspiracy, just as he was working so selflessly and effectively to make America great again.
That 74 million voters can be duped in 2020 means that you and I live among 74 million people who will believe essentially anything, if it comes out of the mouth of a clever demagogue, and is supported by a “news” channel.
Are we to suppose that Trump was the last of his kind, and this type of lunacy can’t arise again in the future?
Are we to believe that the hatred of blacks, Latinos, Muslims, Jews, LGBTQs, and, to a certain degree, women, is simply going to evaporate?
Will our educational standards magically rise to the point that people can spot and reject bald-faced lies and other assertions that fly in the teeth of basic science?
The answer to all these questions, of course, is no.
That doesn’t mean that the country is doomed, but it certainly means that letting our guard down because “the episode is concluded” is a truly terrible idea.
It’s both funny and pathetic that the rest of the world can see what almost half of Americans can’t.
Below is a good example of something that is absolutely true, though it’s just as absolutely worthless. For NRA followers, a nuanced discussion of gun control is simply not going to happen. 
There have been a decent number of posts here recently on the importance of quality education as the underpinning of an effective democracy. Here’s an article readers may find interesting; it covers the 
As I’ve mentioned, 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” is in a rural part of Santa Barbara County in Central California. Just as liberal as the City of Santa Barbara itself is, the cow towns that lie elsewhere in the region tend to be very “God and country,” which means lots of flags, pickup trucks, cowboy boots, saloons, and guns.
After that, it could only be interpreted as “I’m a seditionist.”
It’s the birthday of rock legend Warren Zevon, who died of cancer at the age of only 56, but not before leaving us with this masterpiece, 
Business is booming for survivalist e-commerce sites, and anyone can see why. The coup attempt failed, but it showed the whole world what this could have been like had the U.S. Capitol and the 50 state capitols been stormed by the many millions of armed “Stop the Steal” people, if they had been properly and covertly coordinated. The ad here offers four weeks of meals, packed and preserved for “an emergency.”
Apparently, some people are suggesting that those with extreme right-wing views need to be “deprogrammed,” that controversial idea normally associated with wresting a loved one from the jaws of some sort of cult. A few thoughts:
“It not a question of if; it’s a question of when,” remarks an astrophysicist on the prospect of our finding extraterrestrial life.
In response to 
