At left we have the words of American historian and political activist Howard Zinn.
It’s something to contemplate as we enter the second term of Donald Trump. Some people fear the worst, as Trump is now a lame duck with no one to answer to. Zinn warns us to not let that paralyze us into rigidity.
According to this article, many people who decry wokeism have trouble defining the term.
When challenged in this regard, I borrow from what etiquette maven Emily Post said about manners, in an effort to calm an anxious lady who had been invited to a fancy dinner party and didn’t know what fork to use with a given course. “Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”
In a related way, we have this definition of “empathy,” which is used in the introduction to each episode of “The Hidden Brain,” a weekly radio show syndicated on NPR: “Empathy, at a deep level, is the understanding that someone else’s world is just as real as yours.”
Actually, there is no way to answer that question with any real accuracy, though here is a data point: If confirmed by the senate, Doug “Drill Baby Drill” Burgum will be serving as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, overseeing public and federal lands and their natural resources. If his name is familiar, it’s because he’s a former governor of North Dakota and 2024 presidential candidate, who dropped out of the race to support Donald Trump.
As presented in this article by National Public Radio, Burgum is a big booster of oil and gas drilling, and the popular scam known as carbon capture and storage.
We hear a great deal of speculation regarding the fundamental differences between Trump’s first and second terms, and the author of the meme here seems to have a good point.
When we elected Trump in 2016, we knew that he was a vulgar conman and a pathological liar, but we didn’t know that he would commit treason against his country. Now we’re about to get what we so richly deserve.
Here’s another meme that projects “doom and gloom” associated with the incoming Trump administration, this one specifically concerning an assault on the free press.
I’ll grant that times are scary. Anytime you have an FBI Director like Kash Patel, who has sworn vengeance against Trump’s enemies, you know you’re in hot water. Yet there is a limit.
I have some very bad news for the author of the meme here. Barring a miracle, Trump will spend the next four years trying to make himself an autocrat, along the lines of Putin, Xi, Jong Un, and the scores of other people whose names are unknown to most Americans, i.e., those that rule less internationally important countries like Somalia, Uzbekistan, or Myanmar.
The idea that Trump will be out of our lives anytime soon is pure fancy.
If you want to hear from someone who’s truly pessimistic about the next four years of life here in the United States, check out Michael MacKay at left. Holy cats.
I join those who hold out hope that this isn’t going to be as bad as most of the world fears.
The GOP, at least for the last century, has indeed consistently been about helping the rich get richer.
The only thing new is that they are now empowered to make this happen like no prior time in U.S. history. Our country is led by a criminal sociopath who has the full support of both houses of congress.
It’s hard to understand how the working class relates to Trump; they certainly aren’t doing well financially.
It’s a considerable mystery; they can’t afford eggs, but they seem to love getting stepped on by the U.S. federal government.
Wait a ding-dong minute here. Wasn’t the top priority lowering the price of gasoline and eggs?
Won’t the MAGA crowd feel ripped off when they learn that Trump and his appointees couldn’t care less about them?
Just kidding. The answer is no. There is exactly nothing that the incoming president could do, no crime or act of betrayal he could commit that would weaken the loyalty of the rank and file Trump supporter.
He hates ethnic/religious minorities, intellectuals, and woke liberals, and that’s all that matters.
