Most People Don’t Have the Bandwidth to Make Social Changes, and It Gets Worse….
Comedian and social critic George Carlin nailed an important point here: very few of us have the resources (even if we have the inclination) to devote any major portion of our lives towards making improvements in human civilization.
And many of us (at least Americans) who are investing ourselves into making change are actually working against progress, i.e., actively accelerating the decay in education, equity, healthcare, etc. We have an entire political party whose platform is white supremacy, the rejection of science, and anti-woke. There are people in the GOP garnering vast amounts of wealth and power by making the world a dirtier, hotter, more dangerous, ignorant and hateful place to live.
Thom: What you say here is fine, but keep in mind that virtually none of the Americans who admire today’s GOP has lived a year in Germany. Most of them couldn’t find Germany on a map.
I note all the “amens” in response to this post on social media.
This certification should be provided for: rejecting science, and, in so doing, raising hospitalization rates, while lowering one’s life expectancies and that of everyone coming into contact.
….Isn’t a multibillionaire who hates wokeism and wants to return Donald Trump to the White House.
No one could have foreseen Trumpism and the vicious attack on our nation’s American democracy it represents. And now, even after the insurrection has been put down and its participants brought to justice, the GOP still has sufficient power to thwart the will of the American people.
I was a middle-aged man in 2005 when Aptera was formed and began to accept investors’ cash. Now I’m older, grayer, and, in the back of my mind, wondering how much longer this can continue. I’m likely to go to my grave with no answer.
Here’s the scoop on Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KA):
Everywhere you look, you find another proof-point that there is absolutely nothing that Trump could do or say that would alienate his supporters.
