I recall asking a docent at the Getty Villa Museum that houses antiquities how it was possible that the people of ancient Greece both developed mathematics, philosophy, democracy , etc. and believed that the god Mercury pulled the sun across the sky is his chariot.
He explained, “The situation then was not all that dissimilar to that of today’s United States. Most of our scientists and urbanites are atheists, as were the people who lived in or near Athens. But go out into the rural areas where most people were farmers, where highly educated people are rare, and folks tend to be deeply religious.”
As we’re all aware, humankind carries around a cognitive bias in the form of seeking out information that confirms what we already believe, and the author of the meme at left has created a textbook example.
Each line conveys a deeply misleading concept about the political left.
Having said this, we live in a time in which disinformation surrounds us at every turn. It’s an industry, just like banking, IT, and manufacturing.
My favorite: “riots and chaos.” lol
If you still think that Trump is sane and an honest servant of the American people, even after all this, you have something profoundly wrong with you.
Haven’t we all wondered about this?
Obviously, there are limits to presidential power as set forth in the U.S. Constitution, which Trump is exceeding almost every day. But can he rename the U.S. Capitol the “Donald J. Trump Capitol Building?”
He holds himself on par with Washington and Lincoln. Can he put his name on their monuments?
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