As Trump/MAGA accelerate their attack on American freedoms and values, it is painfully clear that there exists two Americas. One is Trump, his MAGA crowd, his "fall in line" GOP loyalists and some unknown number of voters who believed Trump would be better for their future. Many of these folks mistakenly think Trump/MAGA is just fine for the future of America.
The other America is we the Dems and Libs, who's values and work have built a modern, thriving, more humane America over the past 80 years. Make no mistake, It is this America, our America, that Trump is relentlessly attacking on his retribution campaign to kingship and his shredding of the parts on the Constitution that would limit his powers. He must be stopped.
Across the liberal alliance in America, and this goes well beyond party loyalty, we need to stand up for and extoll the virtues of our America. We have accomplished so much. We need to crow about it relentlessly. We need to educate or re-educate enough of those stuck in the other America, that their future well-being is with us not Trump/MAGA.
We must not be fooled by Trump's exaggerated megaphone. His plans, his agenda and his BBB are all losers for America's future. It is time WE stood up, put aside our fears, stop our self-flagelation game about losing the working class voters and claim the upper hand again. Let's go America we can do this.
You write "the result of this cycle repeating itself over 50 years" made me think about the timing of cable news (CNN) coming on the scene. Was this about the time the profit motive usurped ratings being most important? I miss Walter Cronkite !
I'm reminded of the man who died of Covid, while insisting to the hospital nurse that Covid was fake news.
In Buddhism, the three poisons are greed, anger, and ignorance.
Lucky us.
If we as a society pitch out our better angels - community, kindness, education, empiricism - in favor of GOP sadistic Manicheism that even wolves don't practice - then we will quickly see our planet destabilizing. As in more than 100 forest fires in Canada right now while a glacier has destroyed a Swiss town, floods in Kentucky, despite the good work in clean energy. .
Your last point about an independent press: for me it's not an overstatement to say that a free press is the fourth branch of government in a democracy. It is certainly a first-among-equals player in the Constitution's checks-and-balances scheme.
Keep up the good work. "In God We Trust...all others, bring data".
As Trump/MAGA accelerate their attack on American freedoms and values, it is painfully clear that there exists two Americas. One is Trump, his MAGA crowd, his "fall in line" GOP loyalists and some unknown number of voters who believed Trump would be better for their future. Many of these folks mistakenly think Trump/MAGA is just fine for the future of America.
The other America is we the Dems and Libs, who's values and work have built a modern, thriving, more humane America over the past 80 years. Make no mistake, It is this America, our America, that Trump is relentlessly attacking on his retribution campaign to kingship and his shredding of the parts on the Constitution that would limit his powers. He must be stopped.
Across the liberal alliance in America, and this goes well beyond party loyalty, we need to stand up for and extoll the virtues of our America. We have accomplished so much. We need to crow about it relentlessly. We need to educate or re-educate enough of those stuck in the other America, that their future well-being is with us not Trump/MAGA.
We must not be fooled by Trump's exaggerated megaphone. His plans, his agenda and his BBB are all losers for America's future. It is time WE stood up, put aside our fears, stop our self-flagelation game about losing the working class voters and claim the upper hand again. Let's go America we can do this.
You write "the result of this cycle repeating itself over 50 years" made me think about the timing of cable news (CNN) coming on the scene. Was this about the time the profit motive usurped ratings being most important? I miss Walter Cronkite !
I'm reminded of the man who died of Covid, while insisting to the hospital nurse that Covid was fake news.
In Buddhism, the three poisons are greed, anger, and ignorance.
Lucky us.
If we as a society pitch out our better angels - community, kindness, education, empiricism - in favor of GOP sadistic Manicheism that even wolves don't practice - then we will quickly see our planet destabilizing. As in more than 100 forest fires in Canada right now while a glacier has destroyed a Swiss town, floods in Kentucky, despite the good work in clean energy. .
"Democracy requires us to live in a shared reality" - yep, herein lies the problem.
Your last point about an independent press: for me it's not an overstatement to say that a free press is the fourth branch of government in a democracy. It is certainly a first-among-equals player in the Constitution's checks-and-balances scheme.
Keep up the good work. "In God We Trust...all others, bring data".