What Republican Politicians Tell Their Flock
As shown at left, Republicans generally believe that their country either is failing, or has already failed, in many essential ways.
This may have begun with the Big Lie, i.e., the groundless assertion that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Trump, which ended tens of millions of voters’ confidence in the integrity of U.S. democracy after 240 years of success. It’s kind of ironic that confidence in election integrity was considered to be stronger before the information age, when massive cheating actually could have happened undetected.
In any case, the supposed failure of the United States is now emblazoned into Republicans’ minds with concepts like:
• Biden has opened our borders, giving away our jobs and killing our kids with overdoses of fentanyl.
• The U.S. economy is in freefall decline.
• Our military is now so woke that it’s no longer capable of defending our country.
• Crime rates are on the rise, and immigrants are the cause.
Part of the human condition is that we find ways to believe what make us feel good inside. But never before has the world’s most powerful democracy fallen prey to such a huge and calculated profusion of lies.
What do we get with Trump as our president? Liberty and freedom? That’s what these people believe, as unsupportable as it may appear to you and me.
This gentleman makes a great point about the relative unimportance of Biden’s debate skills.
From a reader: This is a planet-friendly, heavy-duty, microplastic-free, 100% compostable trash bag. Breaks down in weeks, not centuries.
Since the emergence of Donald Trump onto the U.S. political scene, political pundits have been wondering how the former president has been able to capture the loyalty of so many working-class American voters, especially given that he has done essentially nothing for them.
A reader asks: How does one gently correct someone’s poor grammar? I usually let it slide but I want to help them to sound better educated.
The life expectancy of Japanese people exceeds that of Americans by seven full years (84 vs. 77). Seven months would have been statistically significant, but seven years? How is this even remotely possible?
Re: the photo here, a reader notes, “Personally I’d prefer JD Clampett over JD Vance.”
The phrase “doubling down” might be cliché, but it certainly applies to what the Republicans are doing with respect to their extreme right-wing political positions.
Young readers may not recognize this scene from 1975’s “Blazing Saddles,” where the black dude has been appointed the new sheriff of a town on the western frontier. The bigoted white folks are extremely resentful, and here, the amiable town drunk is consoling him:
