I was on a Zoom call with a few smart friends earlier today, when one of them outlined J.D. Vance’s viewpoint on Christianity. Apparently, it’s a set of concentric rings with oneself at the center, followed one’s family in the second ring, the United States and other groups to which one belongs in the third, and the upstanding members of the human race in the fourth. Nowhere do immigrants or other needy people appear at all.
My friend went on to describe this as “bizarre,” but is there anything strange or weird about it at all? It may be sickening, but it’s commonplace among Christians–at least among American Christians of the 21st Century.
Moreover, when I hear stupidity and cruelty like this coming out of the mouth of people like Vance, I often wonder if the speaker truly believes what he’s saying, or if this a statement crafted to appeal to the morons who form the majority of his audience.
The drawing here reminds me of a conversation I had with my mother in the early days of 2GreenEnergy when she saw that my focus had become an ongoing effort to improve the wellbeing of all the planet’s inhabitants–now and into the future.
She asked me, “Why don’t you just live your life?”
I explained, “This is my life.”
“How can there not be a way to make him legal?” a citizen asks.
Sadly, this is what being a conservative is all about in today’s America, i.e., you think abuse is fine, until it impacts your own life.
I agree with Joseph T. Stegall at left, but the main reason Trump needs to face justice is for the good of the country–and the entire world.
If Trump dies a “controversial figure” rather than a vicious criminal, the United States will never recover from the drubbing it’s taken on the world stage and the incredible amount of harm that’s been inflicted on the American people.
Moreover, failure to prosecute Trump would set the stage for the next sociopath to come along and take us down every further. Keep in mind that the next guy is probably not going to be as incompetent as Trump.
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