11-12-2022, 04:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-12-2022, 04:05 PM by Eric the Green.)
We Democrats are now 4 seats short in the House, and it looks like the Senate will continue to be deadlocked too just because 13,000 people in Wisconsin voted the wrong way.
What's this all about? Why must we be wedded to the past and ignore oncoming disaster?
The "inflation" issue is blamed on an unpopular president, so too many voters punish his Party and vote for the opposition, failing to notice that we no longer have an opposition Party.
That's not all they don't notice. They fail to notice that we NEED gasoline prices to be high. What else will spur competition from electric cars? If we don't switch to electric cars and clean energy, then inflation will be incurable because greenhouse gases and climate disasters will grow and grow, and that will cost us far more than an extra dollar at the pump. The people of Florida vote Republican over and over again, preferring to respond to their fears and prejudices instead of to the climate disaster that hits them with hurricanes in November and seasonal hurricanes of unprecedented frequency and severity.
And most people don't like crime, myself included. So the Reprobate Party, the non-viable opposition Party, uses it to create fear among the people by accusing the only viable Party we have of being soft on crime. And yet crime overall is still way below what it was 20 or 30 years ago, when for example the people in the Long Island suburbs voted by small margins for Democratic presidents, and now they elect former-cop thugs as their representatives in congress that have all the wrong values.
As George Carlin says, the majority of US Americans have not been educated to do critical thinking. They can't see anything beyond their immediate fears. So for example in New York (whose Republicans likely will control the House now), they react to accusations that the lack of cash bail is causing more crime, when the fact is that from the longer and deeper point of view it is cash bail that causes more crime. And these former-cop thugs also persuade fools to believe that owning and carrying a gun is the way to protect themselves and that somehow the 2nd Amendment is absolute and inviolate. What a bunch of unadulterated rot it is to value that amendment over human life, which is under severe threat from 10 times more gun violence and gun massacres in the USA than in most other countries. And what's worse, these former-cop thug congressmen think that we should "support law enforcement", which means the police must be allowed to kill innocent young black people like George Floyd without restraint and that DA's should lock up innocent people or impose penalties that don't fit the crimes they are accused of.
But it is people of color who are more likely to suffer this revolving door of crime caused by cash bail and lack of justice, so these Long Islanders and southerners and other red county people would rather respond to the race card and accuse the Black Lives Matter group of causing riots, and accuse Democrats of defunding the police when it's the Republicans who do that. And this means they also react to "the problem on the border." They cannot see that our own policies of wanting lower gas prices and the resulting climate crisis is destroying the climate and economy in Central and Latin America and Africa, along with the dictators and war lords the US has supported there. As George Monbiot says, there is simply nothing left for people in these places, so they seek to enter other countries.
And what's wrong with that? Why is my ancestry as a north-European-American any better than someone whose ancestry is indigenous American and/or Latin-European? Or black? Or some combo thereof? Why should I only be concerned about people whose ancestors many generations ago came from northern Europe and not from other places, and who believe in the right-wing Christian culture war? Why should I support treating these "others" who came from elsewhere like vermin and impose injury, hunger and death upon them just because they want to come to or live in the USA? Why shouldn't people be able to live in the countries they want? Why shouldn't we welcome them and treat them with respect? And why do these prejudiced US Americans forget the job shortage and supply chain issue that is causing inflation? Immigrants whether illegal or not make good workers and consumers, and they boost and not hurt our US economy and jobs! And Donald Trump was wrong; they are not bringing drugs, they are not bringing crime, and they are not rapists. And illegal immigration is a misdemeanor and not a capitol crime. And it is Republicans who cut off funding for the courts and lawyers necessary to process both legal and illegal immigrants, so it is THEIR mess. But just like those who idiotically fall for anti-vax/anti-health mandates and the Big Election Lie and climate crisis is a hoax and QAnon and 9-11 inside job and JFK conspiracy and chemtrails and all that conspiracy theory crap, those people who vote Republican simply are unable to think that far or see that far or feel that far. And it only takes a few of them voting Republican in key states to mess up our country and our whole future. It is truly pathetic and outrageous. And we can't blame the system, because decades of too many people voting Republican has kept the system as it is.
And Judy Woodruff now wants to take a sabbatical so she can report on the divisions in the US and how they can be "healed"? All she has to do is read this post of mine here. All she needs to do is realize that people believe the wrong ideology and the wrong misinformation and need to start voting correctly. It is not more complicated than that. There is nothing else behind it. So why go on a "search" for the obvious? Come on, Judy, stay at your anchor desk! Keep reporting the truth! That's all anyone can do.
What's this all about? Why must we be wedded to the past and ignore oncoming disaster?
The "inflation" issue is blamed on an unpopular president, so too many voters punish his Party and vote for the opposition, failing to notice that we no longer have an opposition Party.
That's not all they don't notice. They fail to notice that we NEED gasoline prices to be high. What else will spur competition from electric cars? If we don't switch to electric cars and clean energy, then inflation will be incurable because greenhouse gases and climate disasters will grow and grow, and that will cost us far more than an extra dollar at the pump. The people of Florida vote Republican over and over again, preferring to respond to their fears and prejudices instead of to the climate disaster that hits them with hurricanes in November and seasonal hurricanes of unprecedented frequency and severity.
And most people don't like crime, myself included. So the Reprobate Party, the non-viable opposition Party, uses it to create fear among the people by accusing the only viable Party we have of being soft on crime. And yet crime overall is still way below what it was 20 or 30 years ago, when for example the people in the Long Island suburbs voted by small margins for Democratic presidents, and now they elect former-cop thugs as their representatives in congress that have all the wrong values.
As George Carlin says, the majority of US Americans have not been educated to do critical thinking. They can't see anything beyond their immediate fears. So for example in New York (whose Republicans likely will control the House now), they react to accusations that the lack of cash bail is causing more crime, when the fact is that from the longer and deeper point of view it is cash bail that causes more crime. And these former-cop thugs also persuade fools to believe that owning and carrying a gun is the way to protect themselves and that somehow the 2nd Amendment is absolute and inviolate. What a bunch of unadulterated rot it is to value that amendment over human life, which is under severe threat from 10 times more gun violence and gun massacres in the USA than in most other countries. And what's worse, these former-cop thug congressmen think that we should "support law enforcement", which means the police must be allowed to kill innocent young black people like George Floyd without restraint and that DA's should lock up innocent people or impose penalties that don't fit the crimes they are accused of.
But it is people of color who are more likely to suffer this revolving door of crime caused by cash bail and lack of justice, so these Long Islanders and southerners and other red county people would rather respond to the race card and accuse the Black Lives Matter group of causing riots, and accuse Democrats of defunding the police when it's the Republicans who do that. And this means they also react to "the problem on the border." They cannot see that our own policies of wanting lower gas prices and the resulting climate crisis is destroying the climate and economy in Central and Latin America and Africa, along with the dictators and war lords the US has supported there. As George Monbiot says, there is simply nothing left for people in these places, so they seek to enter other countries.
And what's wrong with that? Why is my ancestry as a north-European-American any better than someone whose ancestry is indigenous American and/or Latin-European? Or black? Or some combo thereof? Why should I only be concerned about people whose ancestors many generations ago came from northern Europe and not from other places, and who believe in the right-wing Christian culture war? Why should I support treating these "others" who came from elsewhere like vermin and impose injury, hunger and death upon them just because they want to come to or live in the USA? Why shouldn't people be able to live in the countries they want? Why shouldn't we welcome them and treat them with respect? And why do these prejudiced US Americans forget the job shortage and supply chain issue that is causing inflation? Immigrants whether illegal or not make good workers and consumers, and they boost and not hurt our US economy and jobs! And Donald Trump was wrong; they are not bringing drugs, they are not bringing crime, and they are not rapists. And illegal immigration is a misdemeanor and not a capitol crime. And it is Republicans who cut off funding for the courts and lawyers necessary to process both legal and illegal immigrants, so it is THEIR mess. But just like those who idiotically fall for anti-vax/anti-health mandates and the Big Election Lie and climate crisis is a hoax and QAnon and 9-11 inside job and JFK conspiracy and chemtrails and all that conspiracy theory crap, those people who vote Republican simply are unable to think that far or see that far or feel that far. And it only takes a few of them voting Republican in key states to mess up our country and our whole future. It is truly pathetic and outrageous. And we can't blame the system, because decades of too many people voting Republican has kept the system as it is.
And Judy Woodruff now wants to take a sabbatical so she can report on the divisions in the US and how they can be "healed"? All she has to do is read this post of mine here. All she needs to do is realize that people believe the wrong ideology and the wrong misinformation and need to start voting correctly. It is not more complicated than that. There is nothing else behind it. So why go on a "search" for the obvious? Come on, Judy, stay at your anchor desk! Keep reporting the truth! That's all anyone can do.