Basing a claim on a single incident, e.g., the murder of Charlie Kirk, has no real validity.

So, here’s what AI says on the matter:

Violent crime, particularly homicide and gun violence, is significantly higher in the United States compared to Europe.

The U.S. homicide rate fluctuates between 5.5 and 6.5 per 100,000 residents, whereas most Western European countries see rates well below 2.0 per 100,000.  A resident of the U.S. is generally 5 – 6 times more likely to be a victim of a homicide than someone living in Western Europe.

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The meme here speaks volumes to life in the United States and free market capitalism as a whole.

I happened to have met the guy who, in the 1990s, tried to build railways that would connect Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. One day he got a phone call from Herb Kelleher, co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines, who told him, “The fare between any of the major cities in Texas is $80.  The day you drive your first spike in the ground, I’m lowering it to $8.”

American businesspeople are no more interested in the wellbeing of our people than they have in being diagnosed with cancer.

If you’re wondering why there is so much pushback against renewable energy and other elements of climate change mitigation, you really don’t need to look much further.

 

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Hmm.  He’s the governor of the most populous state in the country, whose revenues, if it were a country, would make it the fourth largest economy on Earth. His state ranks in the top five in terms of colleges and universities.  We’re wealthy, well-educated, and extremely productive.

It’s true that he’s not a Trump supporter, but California (and the rest of the world) generally regards the current U.S. president as a criminal sociopath.

Yes, that infuriates folks who are poor, ignorant, racist, and disease-ridden, but generally speaking, it doesn’t bother Californians.

 

 

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Improving our broken, pathetic educational system is important, but it’s only a part of the solution.  Trump’s support is based on the fact that a) most rich people are selfish pigs, and b) most white poor people are hateful racists.

Decency is not taught directly in school (though it’s true that reading the world’s great books goes a long way to creating enlightened minds).

 

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Here’s a short video from actor Richard Gere that speaks a few concise words to Americans.

How did we get to this horrible point?

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The answer to the question at hand: I’m not sure.

Yet it certainly appears that this country has completely lost its appetite for the criminal insanity of today’s Republican party.  We’re tired of the lies, the hate, the indifference to human suffering, the lawlessness, and most of all the utter humiliation our formerly great country receives on the world stage on a near-daily basis.

Compensating cop-beaters for the prison time that hundreds of judges handed down may appeal to a few of the most stupid and depraved Americans, but good luck trying to sell that to sane, decent people.

We have no interest in being slapped in the face every minute for another four years.

 

 

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If you look this up, you’ll see that it’s correct.  Eisenhower was a fierce advocate of the following:

  • Infrastructure, e.g., the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, creating the 41,000-mile Interstate Highway System to improve national defense and commerce
  • Social Programs, Social Security, minimum wage, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
  • Fiscal Policy, lower taxes, a balanced budget, and reduced government regulation, aiming to limit federal intervention in local affairs
  • Foreign Policy, nuclear deterrence and relying on the CIA for covert operations
  • Civil Rights, desegregation of the military and the armed forces, support for the Brown v. Board of Education decision

 

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My only problem with this is the U.S. Constitution, which clearly lays out the laws by which our elections will be conducted, i.e., it’s up to each of the 50 states to make and implement their own procedures.

Obviously, conspiracy theorists, at the direction of Newsmax and their peers, are convinced that there is a significant amount of voter fraud, but the fact is that there have been only a few dozen incidents of proven fraud out of the last one billion votes cast.

Yes, we could have an amendment proposed and passed into law that changes all of this, but until then, I’m going to support the U.S. Constitution, which has done right by the American people since its passage in 1789.

 

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Yes, our atmosphere and our waterways will soon be seeing increasing concentrations of mercury, lead, cadmium, selenium, and arsenic, not to mention other neurotoxins like a wide array of radioactive isotopes, so that the Trump administration can placate billionaire donors.

But seriously, what are a few million agonizing deaths from these carcinogens compared with huge campaign donations?

 

 

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You may be asking yourself why Missouri Republicans did this.

Well, what’s in it for these people to foster a generation of bright, literate youngsters with a thirst for learning?

Absolutely zero.

 

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