Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a pointed observation here, but I wonder how true it is.
I grant that some of us need to be scientifically literate. Without that, our civilization could not keep up with things like vaccines against pandemics, while creating all other medical breakthroughs. we wouldn’t have effective anti-ballistic missiles, climate change mitigation solutions, a deeper understanding of the cosmos around us, and the entire ensemble of IT and communications technologies that make our lives ever more productive.
Keep in mind, however that anything of importance that’s happening in science in the 21st Century is happening at the outermost fringes of incredible levels of specificity. What I learned about physics in college 50 years ago no more qualifies me to understand theoretical physics today than it enables me to fly to the moon in my Prius.
Another thing I would grant is that the 99.999% of us who are not “scientifically literate” in any meaningful way should respect the value of science, and reject QAnon-style beliefs, e.g., the flat Earth, the notion that COVID is a government plot, that global warming is a hoax, that Bill Gates is trying to enslave the population, etc.
Obviously, but can it be scientifically and accurately diagnosed by some guy with a JD degree? No. Good on Pritzker for backing off on this question.
We need to content ourselves with the obvious:
a) Trump’s entire adult life has been shaped around his criminal tendencies and his callous disregard for anyone but himself.
b) This selfishness should have disqualified him from any governmental position. As some astute person said recently, and I paraphrase, He would be fired immediately if he were hired to manage a Subway franchise, or as assistant mayor of some town in a remote part of Kansas.
c) At this point, he has begun to lose his ability to express himself in a clear and lucid manner.
We live in a country that has lost its soul — and its mind.
I’m not sure.
Minnesotans approve of Trump and Lindell right about where they place value on getting dog crap on their shoes.
Yes, the call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger could have been the end.
But what about his attempted overthrow of the U.S. federal government on January 6th? His 34 felony convictions? His adjudication as a rapist? His profiting billions of dollars from his office? His accepting bribes for pardoning his wealthy donors convicted of fraud or those who beat cops at the U.S. Capitol?
Most failed democracies didn’t have dozens of different opportunities to prevent their demise.
We have no one to blame but ourselves.
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