How the American Working Class Votes Remains a Mystery
Here’s yet another reminder of what could be called “the paradox of the American labor vote.”
It’s a tragedy that Trump emerges victorious among these people.
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“Stop Solar”
“Stop Solar” writes: We’re fighting to protect rural America and the way of life we love.
Anyone who believes that farm land is being converted to solar farms is a true idiot.
It’s almost as if there is an industry somewhere with a vested interest in stopping the expansion of renewable energy, and its preying on our rich crop of American morons.
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Poor Thinking Causes Problems in America
Among the many reasons that American society is having trouble functioning right now is that many of its members don’t think very well.
Take the meme here. Are proponents of a woman’s right to choose abortion saying that pregnancy is a disease?
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U.S. Mainstream Media: “The Enemy of the People”
Shutting down the media is the first step that every authoritarian figure takes in securing his position of total and unassailable power.
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Biden and the Working Class
The meme here reminds us of the incredible challenge facing Democrats in their quest to win over working-class voters.
Where Trump looted the U.S. Treasury and gave trillions of dollars to billionaires and corporations, Biden is doing everything in his power to ensure that every American has a living wage.
Yet for some reason (ignorance and hate?) this doesn’t seem to be registering with the electorate.
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists
Most people in developed countries today disbelieve in the concept of hell, i.e., a place of everlasting punishment to which the souls of unrepentant evil-doers descend after death, even though Christ clearly believed in it, as inferred from his detailed description of the place in Mark 13.
Whether or not it’s real, it plays a role in our society’s archetypes.
The cartoon here made me smile, though we hope that people whose careers are built around destroying our planet for profit will have some sort of severe retribution visited upon them.
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Overturning “Citizens United”
When we look at everything we want from government: better education, universal healthcare, common sense gun laws, etc., we see immediately why all these items are out of our reach; Big Money is interfering with our lawmaking processes.
The most obvious remedy for this is a constitutional amendment that would overturn the 2010 Supreme Court decision “Citizens United,” which provides corporations the right to spend as much as they like influencing our elections. The high court found that the First Amendment’s protection of free speech applied to corporations, and now, here we are as plain U.S. citizens, disenfranchised from our democracy.
The words of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg speak for the vast majority of American voters.
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The Cruelty of American Politics Breaks Our Hearts
There is great deal to be said for free enterprise, but maybe there is even more to be said for putting limits on the exploitation of the desperately poor.
Ask yourself: what political philosophy put an end to child labor as depicted here, as well as the countless other atrocities? The conservatives/ libertarians or the progressives?
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The Origin of Religion
Twain was a humorist and not an anthropologist, and thus we can accept what he said here with a grin, even though it’s clearly untrue.
Religion was one of humankind’s first attempts to explain natural phenomena, before science came along and gave us another way forward.
The concept of a God in the sky, commanding us to worship and obey Him, in exchange for His love and protection–even after the death most of us fear–made perfect sense at the time, just as it does for many of us today.
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Saving the Planet from the Ravages of Climate Change Will Not Be Easy
At left is an ad whose copy reads: In addition to the damage to local communities, solar “farms” can cause deforestation, destruction of wildlife habitats and disruption of ecosystems.
Think for a moment of the places you’ve seen where utility-scale solar PV has been deployed. Do they look anything like a place that poor Bambi here might live?
As anyone with any sense at all would guess, the permitting process for solar farms is incredibly rigorous in terms of environmental consequences.
But don’t think for a minute that the fossil fuel industry isn’t going to trick you into preventing the fall of their enterprise.
