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.
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Answer:
No. About 70% of the country objects to Trump’s sociopathic criminality.
He’s supported by about 28% of hateful morons, and 2% of rich greedy, selfish pigs.
As they say, “Check your bank account if you want to know which of these groups you fall into.”
If you want to remain ignorant of science, that’s your choice. Homeschool your kids and teach them that rejecting Christ will send them to an eternity of torment in hell.
You’ll need to start while their still young, while they’re still incapable of asking you why all the little boys and girls who are born in non-Christian countries are doomed to be tortured forever.
Maybe if you can isolate them such that they’ll never question why the bible says the Earth is 6000 years old, when dinosaur bones are hundreds of millions of years old.
If you want to go down this road, which I call child abuse, you have that right.
But realize this: as time passes and science continues to help us cure disease, explore space, extend our lives, and, we hope, help us to avert environmental collapse, your position will reveal itself for what it is: cruel stupidity.
Dr. Brian Cox has risen to the status of what I would call an “astrophysics badass” in a matter of just a few short years. Anywhere you go on social media, there’s Cox making you think the most profound thoughts imaginable.
I won’t give anything away, but I caution you to fasten your seatbelt.
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