Whackos Are Free to Wield Their Ignorance
As astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson puts it, photos like the one here are evidence that we live in a country with a) free speech and b) failed education.
Here, you’re free to believe in things like the flat Earth, chemtrails, the Big Lie, climate change as a hoax, Dr. Fauci working to destroy the U.S. economy, and Bill Gates enslaving the world’s people.
Fortunately, the rest of us are free to regard you as the nut-jobs you are, and to minimize your effect on organized society.
There has been much discussion concerning the relationship between educational levels and political leanings. There is no doubt, for instance, that one is more likely to encounter a Trump supporter running a hardware store in rural Mississippi than teaching cardiology in a university hospital in Massachusetts.
The numbers at left re-enforce my belief that Lincoln should have accepted the secession of the Confederacy in 1861, telling them:
Retired news journalist Dan Rather notes: Momentum appears to have moved in the direction of Biden/Harris. But with the election still months away, we need to remind ourselves that everyone who cares about the country needs to pay attention and get involved.
I had to laugh when I saw this, and how illustrative it is of the conditions of abject stupidity in which this country lives right now.
Is someone suggesting that there should be some factual accuracy in what Trump says?
America could never warm up to Hillary, though this never made sense to most of us. “What exactly don’t you like about her?” we’d ask.
I spend a decent amount of time trying to improve my understanding of particle physics and quantum mechanics. The subject is difficult, but it’s important in our world today, and therefore I believe it’s worth some of my resources.
Unless a U.S. president dies in office and is replaced by the VP, the role of vice president is normally a small one indeed. That may be even more the case with milquetoast Mike Pence, though his actions on January 6, 2021 will enshrine him in history as he certified the 2020 vote, and then escaped Trump’s vigilantes who were threatening to hang him outside the Capitol building.
The thought expressed here was very definitely part of the American zeitgeist at the time (mid-20th Century), but it has largely fallen out of favor since then.
