Americans are rotten, lazy and cruel. Not all of us are. Just a healthy 60ish percent of us are. Too lazy to vote, too lazy to care or they want this cruel insanity.
Americans are rotten, lazy and cruel. Not all of us are. Just a healthy 60ish percent of us are. Too lazy to vote, too lazy to care or they want this cruel insanity.
“Don’t give in to the Dark Side”, as Obi Wan counseled Luke Skywalker. After all, it was the evil Emperor who wanted Luke to feel the hate. I try to channel Obi Wan whenever I feel my frustrated rage at t****p starting to boil up. Angering us Libs is just what he wants.
In Heather Cox Richardson’s most recent Letter from an American, she quotes James Marriott of The Times of London:
“ Our society has been peaceful and healthy for so long that for many people serious disaster has become inconceivable,… Americans who parade around in amateur militia groups and brandish Nazi symbols do so partly because they are unable to conceive of what life would actually be like in a fascist state.” Those who attack modern medicine cannot really comprehend a society without it. And, Marriott adds, those who are cheering the rise of autocracy in the United States “have no serious understanding of what it means to live under an autocratic government.”
Those who lack imagination are to be pitied, while acknowledging their lack brings crisis to us all.
Not sure about that number. Most people I have worked with held multiple jobs just to get by. They are too tired and overwhelmed. Many elections only have one candidate to vote for, so even if there are few votes, that candidate wins. I read of a candidate who ran knowing she wouldn’t win, but was in the race so her constituents would see that for once in her community voters have a choice. The DNC should keep her in mind; run a candidate in every election.
We all are too tired and overwhelmed. What we must avoid is making a reason into an excuse. Sometimes in life we simply have to raise our game and redouble our efforts, convenient or not and wanted or not, because the stakes are so high. This is one of those times. Either we care enough to try to save our democracy or we don't. That's the hand that we've been dealt. Nobody who reads the history books later on will care whether we were tired or not when they wonder and ask why the bad guys were able to take over and impose their will. They will see and care about only results. Our collective efforts need to match that and rise to the challenge, without an expiration date or a price tag.
Watching the late night comedy shows with their episodes of street interviews (Jordan Klepper, or “Lie Witness News”) are very demoralizing and evidence of what you write. The stupidity and lack of awareness is so profound, one wonders how they passed a driver’s test, or pay their bills.
Yes, you are right, there are some who are overwhelmed. I just happen to know a lot of lazy, rotten people who either don't vote or vote for cruelty and think it's fun. I live in Oklahoma, so maybe that's why. I wish people would spend a tiny fraction of the time as they do drooling over their screens trying to be better citizens and human beings.
If you want good change, it takes work and sacrifice. And, that's what a Republic requires. It has to be constantly nurtured.
I would like to add there are some states that do not deserve to be in this Union.
So on the mark! Voting for cruelty, & thinking it’s fun! Until the idiot causes THEM pain, like virtually all the farmers in my state. You get outside of either metro area, and it’s all Trumpers who hate the “other”. Bigotry, ignorance, & Fox “News” watchers are the rule. President Musk will eventually hurt all of us.
It's the American evangelical/Dixiecrat way. Always has been. The Southern church enabled slavery, Jim Crow, murder. Now, evangelicals terrorize the most vulnerable amongst us. And, they're stupid enough to think that tithe will wash their evil away.
Americans are rotten, lazy and cruel. Not all of us are. Just a healthy 60ish percent of us are. Too lazy to vote, too lazy to care or they want this cruel insanity.
“Don’t give in to the Dark Side”, as Obi Wan counseled Luke Skywalker. After all, it was the evil Emperor who wanted Luke to feel the hate. I try to channel Obi Wan whenever I feel my frustrated rage at t****p starting to boil up. Angering us Libs is just what he wants.
In Heather Cox Richardson’s most recent Letter from an American, she quotes James Marriott of The Times of London:
“ Our society has been peaceful and healthy for so long that for many people serious disaster has become inconceivable,… Americans who parade around in amateur militia groups and brandish Nazi symbols do so partly because they are unable to conceive of what life would actually be like in a fascist state.” Those who attack modern medicine cannot really comprehend a society without it. And, Marriott adds, those who are cheering the rise of autocracy in the United States “have no serious understanding of what it means to live under an autocratic government.”
Those who lack imagination are to be pitied, while acknowledging their lack brings crisis to us all.
I want them held accountable for it. They should be.
Not sure about that number. Most people I have worked with held multiple jobs just to get by. They are too tired and overwhelmed. Many elections only have one candidate to vote for, so even if there are few votes, that candidate wins. I read of a candidate who ran knowing she wouldn’t win, but was in the race so her constituents would see that for once in her community voters have a choice. The DNC should keep her in mind; run a candidate in every election.
We all are too tired and overwhelmed. What we must avoid is making a reason into an excuse. Sometimes in life we simply have to raise our game and redouble our efforts, convenient or not and wanted or not, because the stakes are so high. This is one of those times. Either we care enough to try to save our democracy or we don't. That's the hand that we've been dealt. Nobody who reads the history books later on will care whether we were tired or not when they wonder and ask why the bad guys were able to take over and impose their will. They will see and care about only results. Our collective efforts need to match that and rise to the challenge, without an expiration date or a price tag.
And always remember; "We are not the crazy ones".
Watching the late night comedy shows with their episodes of street interviews (Jordan Klepper, or “Lie Witness News”) are very demoralizing and evidence of what you write. The stupidity and lack of awareness is so profound, one wonders how they passed a driver’s test, or pay their bills.
Yes, you are right, there are some who are overwhelmed. I just happen to know a lot of lazy, rotten people who either don't vote or vote for cruelty and think it's fun. I live in Oklahoma, so maybe that's why. I wish people would spend a tiny fraction of the time as they do drooling over their screens trying to be better citizens and human beings.
If you want good change, it takes work and sacrifice. And, that's what a Republic requires. It has to be constantly nurtured.
I would like to add there are some states that do not deserve to be in this Union.
So on the mark! Voting for cruelty, & thinking it’s fun! Until the idiot causes THEM pain, like virtually all the farmers in my state. You get outside of either metro area, and it’s all Trumpers who hate the “other”. Bigotry, ignorance, & Fox “News” watchers are the rule. President Musk will eventually hurt all of us.
Yeah, and then they thump their bibles and lecture us on morality and the American way.
And the haters call themselves “Christian”. Yeah, just like Jesus would do, pile upon the vulnerable, and the least among us. Yeah, that’s Biblical!
It's the American evangelical/Dixiecrat way. Always has been. The Southern church enabled slavery, Jim Crow, murder. Now, evangelicals terrorize the most vulnerable amongst us. And, they're stupid enough to think that tithe will wash their evil away.