One of the key features of Trumpism is that facts don’t matter–and this includes facts that members of the MAGA base experience every time they go to the grocery store or fill up their gas tank.

If Trump or one of his minions says it, it must be true, regardless of how blatantly false it is.

Is It True? Who Cares?

At 2GreenEnergy, we talk a great deal about the incredible transition in the politics of the Republican party of the United States.

When I was growing up in the 1960s, Republicans were actually fairly sane people.  Nobody was trying to suppress voting, rejecting science, or declaring the Democrats were communists.

The meme here provides a good example of what I meme.

The Republicans Squirt to the Right

From a reader:  Okay… confession: I only physically read about a quarter of it.

I’ll make an even greater confession: I read “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” back-to-back when I was a teenager, and they meant a great deal to me at the time.

It was a couple of decades later that I realized that “the virtue of selfishness,” as Rand described her philosophy, is a horrible basis on which to build a society. Fortunately, there isn’t a nation on Earth where everything is privatized: roads, tunnels, bridges, airports, law enforcement, criminal justice, disaster relief, libraries, national defense, bank deposit insurance, emergency healthcare, food safety, etc.

Moreover, hoping that rich and selfish people will restrain themselves from ruining the environment is a joke.

Ayn Rand and the Virtue of Selfishness