We don’t have access to the precise discussion between Kristi Noem and the editor she hired to prepare the South Dakota governor’s new book for publication. Yet it’s hard to imagine this happening too differently from the following:
Editor: Apparently, you shot a dog you couldn’t train, instead of finding it a suitable home.
Noem: Correct.
Editor: To make such an entry in your book is to say that you’re proud, or at least not ashamed, of what you did.
Noem: Again, correct.
Editor: But readers are going to infer that you’re a cold and empty human being, with no real compassion for other living beings. Are you sure you want to project yourself like that?
Noem: I suppose that, if this were some woke, sissy state, you’d have a point. But this South Dakota, a state that went for Trump by a margin of almost two to one. These people have all the sentimentality of a freshly-sharpened chain saw.
Editor: But you’re a member of the Republican party, and the choices you make reflect on the entire GOP.
Noem: You apparently haven’t noticed that this is precisely what the party stands for at this point. We ban books, revoke women’s rights, align ourselves with world dictators, make groundless claims about a stolen election, make rich people richer and poor people poorer, and do everything possible to promote the consumption of fossil fuels. Our voters adore us.
Editor: OK, you win.
https://www.2greenenergy.com/2024/05/01/south-dakota-governor-and-puppy-killer-in-the-news/
Not sure about this.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School might struggle to identify a bear. Could be.
This is the intelligence level of the American electorate today.
The Chinese ownership of American farmland is less than 0.00036, or 0.036%. To put this into perspective, if the entirety of U.S. farmland were reduced to one acre, the Chinese government and business interests would own less than 15 square feet, about half the size of a small broom closet.
Yet, true to form, this is a huge issue for the MAGA base.
This guy is quite effective in talking to uneducated, conservative Americans, most of whom have never traveled to, or even read anything about the happiest countries on Earth.
If I were going to make a statement about the relationship between social justice and despotism, I would at least consider the lives of the people in places that consider social justice to be something of importance, and compare/contrast this to the list of the countries that are perennially at the top of the World Happiness Rankings.
What makes the people in New Zealand, Iceland, Costa Rica, Northern Europe, etc., so happy? Why do these are these nations suffer exactly zero despotism?
I would be completely ashamed of myself if I were to forward a political theory that had precisely no basis in fact.
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