U.S. Has Fallen, But Can Recover
The rank and file Trump supporter doesn’t understand the ridicule with which the United States is now regarded abroad, and wouldn’t care even if he did.
We can only hope that this will be over soon.
As my friend David Leebron, president of Rice University and former Dean of the Columbia Law School, said on a Zoom meeting yesterday, “A large part of the power of this country, in addition to its economic might, is its values. Historically, we’ve stood for honor and decency, and even countries that generally resent us respect us for that.”
We’ve seen our top military people, our scientists and doctors, our journalists and public intellectuals all endorsing Biden. Trump, on the other hand, is endorsed by every single white supremacy group, and now, wait for it, the 
According to the American Energy Society, here’s what’s happening in Africa with respect to oil exploration and extraction:
Even when my kids were young, I didn’t knock myself out with Halloween decorations, but I certainly admire this guy’s creativity and sense of gallows humor.
Are Democrats categorically against any future president like Donald Trump? Isn’t that a bit closed-minded? Rigid? Doctrinaire?
If all the actions Trump’s taking weren’t right out of the wanna-be dictator’s playbook, we’d all be much more comfortable. But that’s not the case, as we’re seeing: playing to people’s strongest fears and points of anger, discrediting the media as “the enemy of the people,” remaking the party that brought him into power, calling for the unjust arrest of this opponents, and removing traditional institutions’ ability to rein him in.
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.
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.
