People like those pictured at left actually do exist, but they’re rare. If only college-educated cast ballots, Trump would have lost the 2020 election by 40 million (rather than 7 million) votes.
The more people are exposed to more of the world’s knowledge, the more likely they are to see through Trump, and recognize him for what he is: a criminal conman.
Kurt Vonnegut left us 16 years ago.
Needless to say, the point he made here has only amplified over that period of time.
From MoveOn:
Yes, we have stupidity at play here, but that’s only part of the problem. In the 50 years since the fall of Richard Nixon, America has taken a considerable nosedive in terms of its core values of honesty and integrity.
Try to imagine, in the 1970s, a Congress and an electorate that would tolerate a pathological liar and criminal conman in the White House, a man whose one and only interest is his own enrichment.
That’s right. You can’t.
This is coming crashing down around them.
The idea that this simply “blows over” is laughable.
This from (real) Christian pastor John Pavlovitz.
Exactly right, and this is the real tragedy that most Americans are dealing with, i.e., the knowledge that we live among people with truly horrible values.
In 2009 I interviewed one of the early developers of electric transportation, Wayne Goldman, whose daughter just called me to tell me of his passing.
He will be missed.
Above is a link to our initial conversation.
At left is a reminder of a disturbing fact: the corporate world is making very few changes to its business models so as to slow the pace at which the Earth’s temperature is rising and its inhabitants are suffering droughts, storms, wildfires, the loss of biodiversity, and devastation of our oceans, and loss of land mass.
And this goes far beyond the most obvious offenders, e.g., Big Oil. Ask McDonald’s what it’s doing to stop the devastation of the Amazon rain-forest. Ask Nestles about its efforts to keep microplastics out of our waterways.
The sign this young man is holding expresses a commonly held belief, i.e., that scientists are sanctioned for expressing views that run counter to the mainstream.
I actually don’t doubt that this is true at some level. If you believe that ivermectin is effective in treating COVID-19, or that climate change is a Chinese hoax, you’re going to run into headwinds from the legitimate scientific community.
Over the years, I’ve interviewed a number of climate scientists to create chapters on global warming for my four books on renewable energy. I asked one guy if he was aware that some people believe that professionals in his field profited off claims that Earth’s temperatures are rising. He snickered, and replied, “Of course I’m aware of that. But the is truth that, here I am, a professor and research scientist at a university with a fairly unimpressive salary. If I could disprove the theory of AGW (anthropogenic global warming), I’d be rich beyond measure.”
As suggested at left, the truth used to be a big deal to our society. The motto of Harvard University, arguably our nation’s most prestigious institute of learning, is veritas, signifying that truth is something worth a considerable investment on the part of its students’ parents.
That was before the rejection of science and the anti-woke movement. That was before Trumpism and the idolizing of a man whose entire life has been one long series of lies to cover up his criminal activities.
That was then; this is now.
