It would be impossible to list all the forms of damage that the re-election of Donald Trump would inflict on the United States.

At a minimum, it would confirm the world’s belief that the U.S. is just as defective morally and intellectually as it was in 2016, and has learned exactly nothing through what it’s experienced over the past eight years.

It would also demonstrate conclusively that a rich and powerful man can commit any crime imaginable, in this case, treason, and not only walk away free, but be catapulted back into the White House, and regain his position as the most powerful person on Earth.

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I laughed when I saw this because I have many times asserted that Trump’s opponents don’t carry on with lavish public displays about their political belief like the former president’s supporters.

 

 

 

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There is no doubt that Washington has its bureaucrats, but what it doesn’t have is a commanding majority of the right-wing extremists we find in the red states. There is precious little support in Congress, and even less in the electorate, for the federal criminalization of abortion, teaching creationism as science, or an energy policy that guarantees the consumption of fossil fuels in perpetuity, and the slow death of most of the Earth’s life forms.

If DeSantis gets his way, we’ll have certain regions of the United States that are among the most backwards and regressive on Earth.

 

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As suggested here, the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump is based exclusively on testimony from Republicans.

Trump is bluffing that he’d like all this televised, so the world can watch and conclude that he’s being treated unfairly, that all 86 witnesses are perjuring themselves, and that the charges against him are baseless.

Sure.

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From this interview with John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump and former ambassador to the United Nations:

“I think probably the most important thing … for people to understand (is that) Donald Trump doesn’t really have a philosophy as we understand it in political terms,” he said. “He doesn’t think in policy directions when he makes decisions, certainly in the national security space. It’s really all connected with how things benefit Donald Trump.”

Imagine that.  Did anyone think that Trump was capable of any other thinking than his own enrichment?

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There are so many disgusting elements of Trumpism that it’s hard to know where to start.

The militant arm of the MAGA is going to prison.

Trump supporters have surrendered whatever capacity for critical thinking they may have had at some point in their lives.

But perhaps worst of all, poor and angry people are sending what little money they have to support a career criminal billionaire conman.

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If we still have an organized civilization here on Earth 100 years from now, we’ll have many people to thank, one of which will be David Attenborough, whose work has done so much to raise public consciousness about the fragility of nature and the need to act responsibly.

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Speaking of things that are not easily dislodged, let’s look at the tens of millions of American voters whose belief in the honesty of the 45th U.S. president is unshaken, even after his third arrest on multiple felony counts.

What happens to Trump is far less important than what happens to the United States as a sovereign nation, as a result its having lost its capacity to think.

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Here are two viewpoints on the social and physical features of countries that contribute to the murder rate.

It should be noted that Mexico is plagued by drug cartels that terrify (and often kill) the locals. Also, El Paso has 1100 armed police officers, tasked with preventing violent crime.  These people report to the duly authorized city and state government, not to the cartels.

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Here’s an article from Inside Climate News called: Mike Huckabee’s “Kids Guide to the Truth About Climate Change” Shows the Changing Landscape of Climate Denial—Producers of climate misinformation are targeting kids and families, delivering an updated message that acknowledges global warming, but minimizes the influence of human emissions.

It begins:

Beverly Grimmett thought the kids magazines she saw stacked on a coworker’s desk this spring were perfectly innocent, until she picked one up.

“My stomach turned,” Grimmett said.

The guides were decorated in bright colors and cheerful cartoons, with titles like “The Kids Guide to Socialism,” “The Kids Guide to Our One Nation Under God,” and, finally, “The Kids Guide to the Truth About Climate Change.”

There is no way of measuring the damage that this propaganda is inflicting on American society, and there is certainly nothing we can do about it.

We need to live with the fact that climate change may render this planet virtually uninhabitable, and there still will be people, incapable of critical thinking, who support the fossil fuel industries, simply because they are told to do so.

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