The reader who sent this question posed at left provided his one-word answer: Greed.
I’m afraid he’s right. As Socrates said, “All wars are about money.” And as our annual military budget gets ever closer to $1 trillion, all that cash needs a home, normally in proxy wars that are being fought all around the globe.
Of course, greed has horrific effects that push far beyond actual military hardware and personnel. Consider climate change as an example. Big Oil and its investors are profiting enormously from their actions that are warming our planet causing loss of land masses, droughts, fires, desertification, floods, loss of biodiversity, and ocean acidification. This, as our generals and admirals are aware, is in the process of creating huge national security issues as climate refugees are forced to emigrate from their homelands.
Here, As anyone could have foreseen, however, there are a couple of major issues:
1) Like every other state in the nation, Colorado has in-person polling places. Here are their FAQs.
2) As explained in this piece by PBS, there are dozens of countries that allow mail-in voting.
Do you think the Australians or the Japanese are raising hell, claiming that their elections are rigged, that they are experiencing massive voter fraud? No. That’s because they don’t have major candidates who are pathological liars, and electorates that are composed of about 50% gullible fools.
The words at left are 100% correct.
Yet, Trump has one capability that’s rarely if ever seen: He can invent stories that have no basis in fact–and convince tens of millions of Americans that they’re true.
Trump flip-flops? Who cares? Anyone who believes a single word coming out of his mouth is an idiot.
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