Horse sense
I first posted the note below to Substack and was immediately told that it proved I was a person of low intelligence. I guess because I don't support the Orange Madman...
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Here I sit with two college degrees, literate in half a dozen languages, and three quarters of a century of practical exposure to and experience with human behavior, yet I absolutely cannot understand what is going on with the USA and elections.
About half of the voters polled continue to support a candidate who is a confirmed liar, convicted felon, obvious misogynist and narcissist. One who loudly denies that he is a NAZI yet proudly proclaims his intention to place people of races or nationalities he dislikes into concentration camps and to punish anyone who opposes or has opposed him by placing them in prison or worse. One who accuses his opponents of the the very crimes he has himself perpetrated.
Is democracy impossible, a failure doomed to collapse? As Robert Heinlein cynically suggested, proving that no matter how many zeroes you add together, the result is always zero?
Fortunately for me, I probably won’t be around long enough to see the final consequences, but I remain depressed by what I see. Our educational system has been slowly disabled and redirected so as to prevent growing minds from learning logic or critical thinking. Now they want to erase the parts of history that might prove embarrassing or generate guilty responses.
Certainly, I never agree with 100% of what any politician says, thinks, or does; but it is very clear to me that a vote for one of them currently on the ballot leads to disaster. Climate change is real but he will ignore it just as he ignored the pandemic that was also real. His racist and sexist attitudes will serve no one well. And his ignorance of economic and legal complexities will drag us back into another recession or depression. (What else can we expect from someone with repeated bankruptcies? One who persists in thinking that tariffs are paid by the foreign producers rather than becoming a financial burden on the local buyer?)
Don’t blame me, I voted for Harris and Walz.
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Here I sit with two college degrees, literate in half a dozen languages, and three quarters of a century of practical exposure to and experience with human behavior, yet I absolutely cannot understand what is going on with the USA and elections.
About half of the voters polled continue to support a candidate who is a confirmed liar, convicted felon, obvious misogynist and narcissist. One who loudly denies that he is a NAZI yet proudly proclaims his intention to place people of races or nationalities he dislikes into concentration camps and to punish anyone who opposes or has opposed him by placing them in prison or worse. One who accuses his opponents of the the very crimes he has himself perpetrated.
Is democracy impossible, a failure doomed to collapse? As Robert Heinlein cynically suggested, proving that no matter how many zeroes you add together, the result is always zero?
Fortunately for me, I probably won’t be around long enough to see the final consequences, but I remain depressed by what I see. Our educational system has been slowly disabled and redirected so as to prevent growing minds from learning logic or critical thinking. Now they want to erase the parts of history that might prove embarrassing or generate guilty responses.
Certainly, I never agree with 100% of what any politician says, thinks, or does; but it is very clear to me that a vote for one of them currently on the ballot leads to disaster. Climate change is real but he will ignore it just as he ignored the pandemic that was also real. His racist and sexist attitudes will serve no one well. And his ignorance of economic and legal complexities will drag us back into another recession or depression. (What else can we expect from someone with repeated bankruptcies? One who persists in thinking that tariffs are paid by the foreign producers rather than becoming a financial burden on the local buyer?)
Don’t blame me, I voted for Harris and Walz.
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