The meme here comes from the Democratic Coalition.
In principle, these people have nailed it. A DeSantis presidency, coupled with a conservative Supreme Court, could turn the United States into a white nationalist theocracy.
Anything that required government spending, e.g. public education, would become a casualty. If you think our kids are falling behind now, see what four years of a DeSantis wrecking ball will do.
The irony in the meme here that electric vehicles perform like rockets, especially compared to diesel engines.
This from Donald Trump:
“Joe Biden’s weaponized Justice Department – and I’m a victim of it – is persecuting his political opponents. His administration is waging war on free speech. They’re trying to indoctrinate and mutilate our children,” Trump said in the video.
“He’s leading us to the brink of World War III. And on top of all of that, he’s the most corrupt president in American history.”
I know I’m not the only one wondering what’s going to take Trump down. Most of us are hoping that he’ll be indicted for seditious conspiracy or something similar, and that a significant part of his base will come to its senses about its leader’s crimes.
Another tack that history may take here, albeit less sexy, could be that his followers grow tired of the torrent of bald-faced lies, e.g. those above, and simply move on to some other horrible person.
What will that result in? More and better teachers, and more richly educated young people, stemming the tide of America’s increasing irrelevance in the global marketplace.
That may sound noncontroversial, but it’s not. There are plenty of people who don’t want any of this, and who are calling for generations of kids who have no more capacity to think for themselves than goldfish.
The meme here from a reader.
The United States is struggling to regain its former stature on the world stage, because there are certain forces pulling back towards stupidity and degradation.
Once our nation elected a common sociopath as its president in 2016, it opened up the door for people like Marjorie Taylor Greene to be taken seriously in American politics.
One thing I find impressive about congressional Republicans is that they don’t mind taking positions that are completely outrageous. Their determination to remove Social Security and Medicare stands out here.
I’ve paid into Social Security since I was 16, and the same can be said about almost all Americans my age (late 60s). How on Earth do you think all these voters are going to feel about their money being taken from them?
What next? Once you let government take action in healthcare that prevents poor people from dying from treatable diseases, you’re well on your way to having a government that actually helps the common American.
At that point, according to Republicans, you’ve become China, or perhaps worse, Denmark.
… remains flat, hovering under 43%, almost 10% under his disapproval rating.
What does this reveal, given the job numbers at left?
Well, at a minimum, it shows that, whatever people may say about the importance of job growth, it doesn’t translate into their approval of a certain president.
This may have been different in the past, but today, in the age of Trumpism, all many people want from their leader is white nationalism, pain inflicted on the poor, an all-out assault on the environment, and any other conceivable means to “own the libs.”
The money I made in my marketing services company had nothing to do with my father’s money, nor his connections. So, does that mean luck was not a factor?
Hardly. I was adopted shortly after my five-month birthday by two of the finest people on the planet, who sacrificed greatly to put me through a terrific private school in Philadelphia, and a fabulous private college in Connecticut.
At this point, I ask the reader to consider, as I do frequently, how terribly wrong this could have gone, even setting aside the fact that my biologic mother could have aborted an unwanted pregnancy.
Not all adopting parents are intelligent, prosperous, dedicated to their kids’ education, generous, and sober.
IMO, successful businesspeople who discount their luck are kidding themselves.
This quote from early psychologist Wilhelm Reich is the reason that the material here on the 2GreenEnergy blog has transitioned over the years from science/technology to politics. At this point, the impediment to accepting renewable energy and climate change mitigation strategies more generally has very little to do with facts and everything to do with, as he puts it, “feelings and beliefs.”
Of course, I doubt that these posts, which I hope to be emotionally evocative, change too many people’s ways of thinking. Recent studies in neurology show that people’s minds are “wired” in ways that are deeply resistant to change.
If you are, for example, a Trump supporter, there is nothing I can possibly write that will make you wake up tomorrow wanting to save people you don’t know from droughts, wildfires, floods, and loss of land mass.
To be fair, there are no news headlines that are going to make me think that Mexicans are coming for our jobs and that a wall on the southern border is a good idea.
