Vance has certain qualifications that appeal to the MAGA crowd, e.g., his seething racist hatred, dishonesty, cruelty, anti-science, anti-woke, anti-human rights, anti-education, and anti-environmental responsibility. Whether he’ll be as appealing as Trump to the amoral billionaires remains to be seen. …
Tag: cruelty
Where Have the Flags Gone? — An Interesting Question
I happen to know the author of the piece at left from my business days. Here are two related answers to his question: 1) The American flag has taken on a new meaning since the formation of the MAGA bunch, …
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Republicans and “Small Government”
It’s been clear ever since I was a boy that Republicans are insincere when they say they want small government. They want an extremely powerful government when it comes to enforcing their values on the common American, i.e., a country …
Inaction and Regret
Abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe left us with this: “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” Of course this applies to our private lives, where we may regret not saying something …
Tagged with: cruelty, environmental decay, indifference to human suffering, racism, rejection of science
How Misogyny Has So Grossly Disfigured The United States
I thought readers might be interested in a conversation between senior energy analyst and political activist Glenn Doty and me on the subject of the meme here, which is captioned, “From Iceland to Taiwan and from Germany to New Zealand, …
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One Town’s Approach to Climate Change Mitigation: No Politicians
Here’s an unusual twist on attacking climate change at the community level: make it happen at the community level, with lots of peer pressure, but in the complete absence of politicians. It hasn’t been a great time for politicians, …
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