Most commenters on this meme report that “it’s already in full swing.”
And, though it appears at first blush that the appeal of this conspiracy theory starts and ends with the completely uneducated, that’s not true; an old college friend liked this post on social media.
If I were a supporter of the idea, I’d challenge my belief with, what would be for me, the nagging truths surrounding the “destruction of the American economy.” I’d wonder about the growth in GDP, the job market, corporate earnings and thus the all-time records in the stock market. I’d consider inflation numbers, and public spending that has already provided real value for the common American. If I were super-rich and selfish, I’d be thrilled that 99% of new wealth entering U.S. society since 1980 has gone to the richest 1%.
In short perhaps, I’d want to examine the evidence.
In the olden days, we used to evaluate the legitimacy of an arguments premises before trying to draw conclusions. Perhaps it’s our loss of our capacity to think rationally that’s been our undoing as a nation.
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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