America, with its childish response to immigrants, as shown at left, stands in stark contrast to Switzerland, one of the most sophisticated and highly developed countries on Earth.
Switzerland features: Fabulous education, incredible, urbane culture, and a standard of living close to the very top of the world rankings.
Pertinent to this post, they have four official language–French, mostly spoken in the west, German in the north. Italian in the south, and Romansh, a variety of Latin, in the east. The truth, however, is that no one could possibly care what language you speak. If you want to speak Mandarin or Bulgarian, you’ll have trouble communicating with others, but that’s your problem.
The United States features: A considerable level of affluence, but entire regions that are drowning in poverty, ignorance, racial hatred, fanatical Christianity, lousy public education that gets worse with each passing year, and people who seem to have nothing better to do than heap even more pain on some of the world’s most miserable people.
Think of the efficiency associated with driving trucks around, picking up old toilets and sinks that last in homes for many decades, then taking them to a facility where they are ground into small porcelain chips, then shipping the chips to the people who make road bedding.
Incredible.
It would be more cost-effective to shuttle rocks from the moon.
This is funny, but there is a certain sadness to it as well, i.e., that old people tend to be Trump supporters.
It would be interesting to know why this is. Perhaps it has to do with having grown up in the times in which racism was completely acceptable, in fact, de rigueur. Maybe it has some connection with having grown up in the Depression.
At left is Eric Swalwell’s idea for preventing another Donald Trump.
While I grant that something needs to be done to combat Trump and any future sociopath in the White House, I’m not sure we need an extra contrivance, when we already have the 25th Amendment and the power of impeachment.
If we’re going to a congress full of spineless sycophants, we’re screwed in any case.
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