Surprise: Liberals Are Sometimes Called Nasty Names
Liberal pastor John Pavlovitz irritates far more conservatives than I ever will, but between the two of us, I’m willing to bet I’m the only one who’s been called a “cockroach” on a syndicated live radio show.
A caller wanted to share his opinion of me, after I presented a bit of climate science to the audience, resulting in this insect metaphor, on the basis that I was scaring Americans into believing a hoax.
I chuckled, and responded, “Look, my job is to interview scientists and to boil down and present their findings to large audiences of people who, generally, don’t have a great deal of scientific training. This is what I do for a living. If that makes me a cockroach, I really don’t know what to tell you.”
Everything you read at the left is true, but the bigger insult to your intelligence is that this is what the right wing has been telling Americans ever since we were settling the wild west with the original Colts and Remingtons.
OMG. 
My dad was a WWII bomber pilot whom we lost 10 years ago. I miss him terribly, yet I’m almost glad he’s not here to see this.
This brings up an interesting point. If you’re a conservative (and in this case a liar; FB deleted this post???), you may object that Los Angeles County, with 10 million residents, has a great deal of clout. But ask yourself this: Doesn’t every voter deserve to have an equal voice, regardless of the state in which he resides? My vote in California means essentially zero, as this state will definitely vote against Trump. But if I lived in Florida or Ohio, my vote would be thousands of times more influential in the overall outcome. Does that seem fair?
We keep wondering about the constituencies of the people voting for Trump, and the list keeps getting smaller. Here’s one I had yet to mention, and it’s perhaps the most obvious of them all: the families and friends of COVID-19 victims. The 215K dead people can’t vote, but their relations can. Then there is another 7.5 million victims who are still alive. That’s a lot of sick, and, one would assume, angry people.
Today at Standing Rock, Greta Thunberg received a Lakota name: “Woman who comes from the Heavens.”
I have to admit that I don’t understand why Trump is so far behind in the polls of older voters. Sure, it’s possible that the meme here has nailed it, and they see that Trump’s approach is harming them personally. But it’s also possible that older people, instead of being “stuck in their ways” and perhaps moving toward senility, are actually far sharper than what our stereotypes might suggest.
The words of Angela Merkel seem almost astonishing, after four years of Trump. It’s easy for Americans to forget that true, honest leadership is still possible.
Every American should be terrified of what the president is doing to encourage extreme right-wing violence, and no one, IMO, explains this any better than 
