Trump’s (fairly successful) attempts to divide America are just a means to the end of staying in power so as to be able to continue to loot the U.S. treasury.

At this point, there are three essential factions in the United States:

• A small number of extremely powerful billionaires
• The MAGA base of white nationalist / hateful morons who believe that only Trump can save us from communism, racial impurity, and godlessness
• Decent, educated people

The Divided States of America

People have been dancing around the faith/reason duality for more than 2000 years.  Aristotle worked out the rules of logic around 350 BCE, and Thomas Aquinas assumed the task of using them to prove the existence of God in the 13th Century CE. Descartes came along a couple of hundred years later, and made some improvements on all this, but we’re still left with very little.

As I told my nephew once when he was assigned a college paper on this, “You can’t have your metaphysical cake and eat it too. You either believe in things for which there is evidence, or you don’t.”

Moreover, as shown at left, faith runs headlong into logical inconsistencies.

Faith and Reason

Wonder who this “patriot” voted for.

Racism Is Growing Like a Weed