Well , that was a powerful shotgun blast - and every pellet hit a target! You just have to shake your head - how did so many in this country get so morally bankrupt, reality averse, clinically self-centered, Dunning-Kreugerized, and empathy-avoidant? In the past 5 years, the party faction infecting the nation's consciousness has obtained traction on a reactionary, hateful landscape that had been fenced off and its denizens corralled by sufficient people of power and influence who not only recognized but energized their better natures. The seething base was always there, swelling and heaving over time, poked and stimulated in the early 90s by a Gingrichian love of a no-holds barred, total war approach to politics, but the dam break occurred in NYC, when the swell of verbal sewage cascaded down a golden elevator adored by rented fans and facilitated by a media lured and eventually enslaved by the controversy-fueled ratings and profits. Are there real issues that should be addressed which affect many Americans who are currently in the emotional grasp of the darkness? Yes, of course there are. I have listed some of them in other comments. But do you see TFG, MTG, Cruz, Hawley, Gosar, Boebert, Paul, Jordan, Comer, Vance, Noem or the governors of America's healthcare basement (Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, West Virginia) DO anything even to acknowledge the existence of the real issues? No. Why? Because they don't believe that it is a valid function of government to work in the interests of all of its citizens - only to let some of those citizens take as much as they can with as little government oversight or interference as possible, regardless of the collateral damage. The past several decades have demonstrated over and over again - R's don't govern in the public's interests - it is against their "faith/dogma"- a serious "sin" in their political catechism. Want proof? Watch what they do, NOT what they say. [That's my 2 cents worth.]
Well , that was a powerful shotgun blast - and every pellet hit a target! You just have to shake your head - how did so many in this country get so morally bankrupt, reality averse, clinically self-centered, Dunning-Kreugerized, and empathy-avoidant? In the past 5 years, the party faction infecting the nation's consciousness has obtained traction on a reactionary, hateful landscape that had been fenced off and its denizens corralled by sufficient people of power and influence who not only recognized but energized their better natures. The seething base was always there, swelling and heaving over time, poked and stimulated in the early 90s by a Gingrichian love of a no-holds barred, total war approach to politics, but the dam break occurred in NYC, when the swell of verbal sewage cascaded down a golden elevator adored by rented fans and facilitated by a media lured and eventually enslaved by the controversy-fueled ratings and profits. Are there real issues that should be addressed which affect many Americans who are currently in the emotional grasp of the darkness? Yes, of course there are. I have listed some of them in other comments. But do you see TFG, MTG, Cruz, Hawley, Gosar, Boebert, Paul, Jordan, Comer, Vance, Noem or the governors of America's healthcare basement (Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, West Virginia) DO anything even to acknowledge the existence of the real issues? No. Why? Because they don't believe that it is a valid function of government to work in the interests of all of its citizens - only to let some of those citizens take as much as they can with as little government oversight or interference as possible, regardless of the collateral damage. The past several decades have demonstrated over and over again - R's don't govern in the public's interests - it is against their "faith/dogma"- a serious "sin" in their political catechism. Want proof? Watch what they do, NOT what they say. [That's my 2 cents worth.]
When it comes to liars, it's always best to watch what they do, because their words are worthless.