If the next four years in U.S. politics is simply a reprise of Trump’s first presidency with its petty corruption, its profound indifference to the well-being of the common American, and our nation’s humiliation on the world stage, we can all count ourselves lucky.
Most of us fear that Trump, now a lame duck with nothing to lose, will leave office in 2029 having:
• Transformed American democracy into an oligarchy of multibillionaires.
• Shielded himself from the rule of law, quashing all attempts to prosecute him for the crimes he committed in his attempt to overthrow of our government following his loss in the 2020 election.
• Consolidated power into the executive branch, upsetting the balance of powers that was put in place at the founding of our republic nearly 250 years ago.
• Eviscerated the Justice Department such that it’s impotent to hold the oligarchy accountable for its crimes. This, of course, is the defining characteristic of the most despicable regimes on Earth, i.e., that their leaders are above the law.
• Completed the job of of destroying the U.S. educational system, rendering our country incapable of critical thinking.
• Withdrawn the world’s largest economy from any effort to adapt to / mitigate climate change and other forms of environmental degradation.
Could it possibly be as bad as our well-founded nightmares? Maybe we’ll get off easy. Who knows?
It’s a pleasure to see that Dr. Brian Cox has people so popular, having joined the ranks for Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and a few others. This phenomenon of celebrity physicists if one of very few bright spots in our modern world.
I would qualify what he says at left as follows: the only people who hate the economics here are those invested in fossil fuels. Clean energy and transportation are already huge industries, and they’re growing at an amazing pace–even in the face of heavy suppression by Big Oil and Donald Trump.
Are you saying that Trump is defying the law, as if this is news?
It happens almost every day.
Most people change their political ideologies as they go through life, experience new things, and continue to learn. This is natural, and the vast majority of these folks are perfectly honest and sincere.
On the other hand, there are people like JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, and, of course, Donald Trump, who are simply opportunists. They would try to convince you that day is night if they thought it would further their careers.
They count on Americans to accept things like the following: Last June, we obliterated Iran’s nuclear weapons capability. Now we have to re-obliterate it.
There is a huge audience of American fools who are thinking: makes perfect sense to me! When we get finished with this war, we’re gonna f*** it up again!
Within the realm of political punditry, I’ve always wondered if people like Rush Limbaugh actually believe what he told their wildly receptive American audience. Is he really a hateful moron, or was he, just like the televangelists, just another career actor, looting the bank accounts of our nation’s idiots?
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