At left are opposing views on the subject of human empathy, including one from German-American historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt, one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.
What Elon Musk says on the subject is reminiscent of the philosophy of Ayn Rand, who really was a “thing” in the mid-20th Century until people realized that caring for one another was an essential part of what it means to be a human being, as opposed to, say, a tiger shark.
Sadly, we’ve seen a resurgence of this “mentality,” at least in the last decade here in the U.S. Almost half of American voters favor the dismantling of our government’s capacity to deal with disease, hunger, environmental collapse, ignorance, and corporate criminality. It appears that 250 years of government of, by, and for the people is no match for the Musk/Trump machine.
If you look this up, you’ll see that it’s correct. Eisenhower was a fierce advocate of the following:
- Infrastructure, e.g., the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, creating the 41,000-mile Interstate Highway System to improve national defense and commerce
- Social Programs, Social Security, minimum wage, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
- Fiscal Policy, lower taxes, a balanced budget, and reduced government regulation, aiming to limit federal intervention in local affairs
- Foreign Policy, nuclear deterrence and relying on the CIA for covert operations
- Civil Rights, desegregation of the military and the armed forces, support for the Brown v. Board of Education decision
Where the Republican Party Has Gone Since Eisenhower in the 1950s
My only problem with this is the U.S. Constitution, which clearly lays out the laws by which our elections will be conducted. I.e., it’s up to each of the 50 states to make and implement their own procedures.
Obviously, conspiracy theorists, at the direction of Newsmax and their peers, are convinced that there is a significant amount of voter fraud, but the fact is that there have been only a few dozen incidents of proven fraud out of the last one billion votes cast.
Yes, we could have an amendment could be proposed and passed into law that changes all of this, but until then, I’m going to support the U.S. Constitution, which has done right by the American people since its passage in 1789.
Yes, our atmosphere and our waterways will soon be seeing increasing concentrations of mercury, lead, cadmium, selenium, and arsenic, not to mention other neurotoxins like a wide array of radioactive isotopes, so that the Trump administration can placate billionaire donors.
But seriously, what are a few million agonizing deaths from these carcinogens compared with huge campaign donations?
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Where the Republican Party Has Gone Since Eisenhower in the 1950s
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