I’m with what Bernie Sanders said here 100%; Biden’s done a fantastic job in many different respects.
I would only add the proviso that I’ll go with whatever choice Democratic leadership makes in order to assure that Trump is defeated.
We’ll have other chances to achieve this significant environmental and social progress; we will not have another chance to retain American democracy in the face of an extremely powerful and evil man.
I completely sympathize with this young person; I wouldn’t like my fellow drivers to think I’m a hard-core, anti-union Trumper.
The meme here is spot on, but let’s be honest:
Do you think the typical Republican evangelical is likely to come across this?
Even if he did, would he care?
Here’s a discussion between two people from my boyhood, whom I won’t identify by name, and whose comments I did not edit.
This from right-wing TV anchor Candace Owens:
‘Listen. I’m not a flat-earther. I’m not a round-earther.’ Actually, what I am is, I am somebody who has left the cult of science. I have left the megachurch of science because what I have now realized is that science—what it is actually, if you think about it—is a pagan faith.”
Fortunately, very few people perceive science in this way, but I guess if you’re going to hold yourself out as one of the most prominent members of the U.S. right-wing political spokespeople, you’re essentially forced to go in this direction. Accepting science as the best way of gaining an understanding of the world around us is not an option; it’s for woke liberals. Moreover, calling science a “pagan faith” is not going to cost you one red cent in terms of your following of American idiots.
A few hundred years ago, some poor guy suggested that the stars in the sky might be other suns around which planets like ours orbited; he was promptly burned at the stake. And going to that level of stupidity and cruelty may very well lie in our collective futures.
Whether or not this becomes a reality lies in precisely one thing: how seriously we as a civilization accept the viewpoints of morons like Candace Owens. Our future lies exactly here.
The reason that I’m happy that Trump survived the assassination attempt is that America cannot and will not survive this period of darkness and shame if Trump is for whatever reason buried and, by a huge number of hateful and ignorant voters, martyred.
As a country, we either inspect and come to understand what has happened over the last decade or will be stuck in this stupidity in perpetuity.
“In perpetuity” more actually means “until we’ve become irrelevant on the world stage.” When and if it becomes clear that the U.S. has permanently lost whatever moral character it once possessed, when we’ve become an admitted ally of Russia, when we’ve become inextricably linked to the other most murderous regimes of the world, we will have no more authority on this planet than Chad or Paraguay.
This is precisely where we deserve to be.
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.
I would say we get leadership by a man who tried to overthrow the U.S. government, and has shown us nothing but lawlessness and loyalty to his wealthy donors.
This gentleman makes a great point about the relative unimportance of Biden’s debate skills.
An astonishingly large number of Americans fail to realize how close we are to the collapse of everything this country once stood for.
From a reader: This is a planet-friendly, heavy-duty, microplastic-free, 100% compostable trash bag. Breaks down in weeks, not centuries.
Sorry, but if it’s going to be in a landfill with 99.999999% of other standard plastic bags, I don’t see the point.
