If Republicans wonder why I vote for Democrats, the recent attack by a group of Republican representatives is one of the reasons. It amazes me that members of the "Law and Order" party would stoop to vandalism in the House of Representatives. Their protests were even more ridiculous because several Republicans were in the closed meeting.
See https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/us/politics/republicans-storm-trump-impeachment-hearing.html.
I would like to vote for Republicans, but only when they live up to their name: res publica (public things). Instead they seem to be working overtime to promote Redonaldcons. I didn't care for Ronald Reagan, but Donald Trump certainly makes Reagan look like St. Ronnie!
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Wednesday, October 09, 2019
Take back your mind
There are thousands of brain snatchers all over the web. Some snatch your brain by putting other people down. Some snatch your brain by getting you to act against your best interests.
You can take your mind back by staying away from social media.
Instead of getting your news from social media sites, read several online mainstream newspapers. You can read many of them free, but you can support them by subscribing. And you will find a variety of opinions in all of them.
I myself read the Duluth News Tribune, Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul), Washington Post, and New York Times. I also listen to podcasts of God Morgon Världen, Science Magazine, and To The Best of Our Knowledge.
This blog entry was inspired by a library book that was displayed on a little stand at my eye level: TEN ARGUMENTS FOR DELETING YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS RIGHT NOW by Jaron Lanier.
Consider that the Russians didn’t interfere with our election. It was far easier to interfere with the minds of people who get their news on social media.
And distrust anyone who rails against “lame stream media”.
You can take your mind back by staying away from social media.
Instead of getting your news from social media sites, read several online mainstream newspapers. You can read many of them free, but you can support them by subscribing. And you will find a variety of opinions in all of them.
I myself read the Duluth News Tribune, Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul), Washington Post, and New York Times. I also listen to podcasts of God Morgon Världen, Science Magazine, and To The Best of Our Knowledge.
This blog entry was inspired by a library book that was displayed on a little stand at my eye level: TEN ARGUMENTS FOR DELETING YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS RIGHT NOW by Jaron Lanier.
Consider that the Russians didn’t interfere with our election. It was far easier to interfere with the minds of people who get their news on social media.
And distrust anyone who rails against “lame stream media”.
Tuesday, October 01, 2019
Reagan’s words to today’s “conservatives”
Would Ronald Reagan admonish today’s so-called “conservatives” with “There you go again”?
I supported and voted for John Anderson in 1980 because I saw him as a real Republican who was concerned with “res publica” (public things). Rather than have a laundry list of “ills of what was wrong” he concerned himself with balancing issues.
Unfortunately the Republican Party has devolved into a blame machine in which Democrats can do no right.
If the Republicans were real conservatives, wouldn’t they be all in favor of considering many ideas rather than be in lockstep on one set of ideas?
If they were real conservatives, wouldn’t they read the Constitution very carefully instead of corrupting it to fit their own ideas?
If they were real conservatives, wouldn’t they heed Washington’s advice in his farewell address to avoid factions?
Once upon a time the Senate was called the “greatest deliberative body in the world. Now it has a Majority of one who obstructs any legislation that he doesn’t like.
I supported and voted for John Anderson in 1980 because I saw him as a real Republican who was concerned with “res publica” (public things). Rather than have a laundry list of “ills of what was wrong” he concerned himself with balancing issues.
Unfortunately the Republican Party has devolved into a blame machine in which Democrats can do no right.
If the Republicans were real conservatives, wouldn’t they be all in favor of considering many ideas rather than be in lockstep on one set of ideas?
If they were real conservatives, wouldn’t they read the Constitution very carefully instead of corrupting it to fit their own ideas?
If they were real conservatives, wouldn’t they heed Washington’s advice in his farewell address to avoid factions?
Once upon a time the Senate was called the “greatest deliberative body in the world. Now it has a Majority of one who obstructs any legislation that he doesn’t like.
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