I believe the reason some people pride themselves on their lack of interest in politics is that they don’t want to be mired in thinking about some of the country’s scummiest people: Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis, Lauren Boebert, etc. Where that’s easy to understand, they need to realize that if they don’t like these folks’ character, things can get even worse.
In particular, the next wanna-be dictator is extremely unlikely to be as clumsy as Trump. He’s not going to take thousands of secret documents in his house, he’s not going to have 18 co-defendants with email chains describing how they were going to seize power after a lawful and fair election, and he’s not going to be facing 91 felony charges stemming from four different criminal indictments.
Maybe the protestors are less concerned about length of time in office, and more with criminal authoritarianism.
I have such respect for Pascal that I considered naming our son after him. (My wife wasn’t having it. Maybe if we lived in France?)
Pascal made important contributions to both math and physics but he’s perhaps best known for his philosophic “wager,” that it makes sense to believe in God, since if He exists, you’ll be very glad you did, and if He doesn’t, you haven’t lost anything. I counter that this is not how we accept or reject religious tenets.
“Republican Patriots” writes: Howard Stern once again reveals the contempt so many in the entertainment elite hold for everyday Americans. He claims not to hate President Trump himself, but openly declares his hatred for those who support him, calling them stupid and saying he has no respect for them. This kind of arrogant dismissal shows how out of touch these Hollywood types have become with the hardworking people who built this country.
I’ve got news: contempt for Trump supporters is hardly limited to “these Hollywood types.” The vast majority of Americans–especially at this point–are neither greedy pigs nor hateful morons. We respect human rights and rule of law.
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