I recently met an attorney who told me that is specialty is traffic. “Really!” I replied. “That sounds interesting. Could you give me an example of what you do, and for whom?”
He explained that people who get hefty citations hire him to get their cases dismissed, or have their fines greatly reduced. He summarized this as follows, “I take money away from local governments, and keep bad drivers on the road.”
Holy crap, I was thinking. Not everyone is a Mahatma Gandhi or MLK, but should anyone fashion a career out of making the world a more dangerous and degraded place than it already is?
I’ll grant that this is an extreme example. But consider that there are millions of people working in industries like fossil fuels, tobacco, sodas, and building war machines. Then we have our elected officials whose job it is destroy public education and environmental health, while others work on gerrymandering so as to keep themselves in office and dismantle our democracy.
Sure, the attorney described above has a disgusting profession, but he’s not alone.
This piece from Robert Reich reminds us of what a big ask it is of the American people to vote for Republicans in the midterms.
Sure, there are many hateful morons who love detention centers for people with brown skin, or believe that America is going communist, or that our elections are rigged (unless they are won by Republicans). Yet it seems unlikely that any of these positions of extreme ignorance will win the day.
Unfortunately, Trump knows this. That’s why we shouldn’t be surprised if he tries to cancel the midterms or rip up the Constitution and nationalize them.
This concept has an enormous level of popularity in the Republican party. Exactly why?
What’s certain is that property taxes fund our schools, and without them, the common American would be even more ignorant than he is today, if that’s believable.
Now, which party benefits from poor education and a lack of the capacity for critical thinking?
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Sending Top-Level Criminals to Prison Makes Sense, Unless They’re Americans, of Course
All Americans should know that most other countries act fast and hard against top-ranking people who act corruptly.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is currently serving a 27-year prison sentence for a coup plot and attempting to overthrow democracy.
In 2008, when rich Icelanders had committed financial crimes that led to their country’s economic collapse, do you know what happened to them? Were they re-elected and left to loot their treasury? No, they were sent to prison.
Honest and free nations don’t encourage criminality. They send felons to prison. It’s not that hard, nor is it in any way controversial.
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