It’s midsummer, a heat dome set new climate records, covid is rising again, a former president is desperately trying to rally his ragged army of drunken malcontents to ward off all the grand juries stunned by his criminal efforts, a pop singer is trying to regain the freedom to control her life again and a former comedian who drugged his sexual assault victims regains his freedom instead.
Some days, the answers to all the things remain elusive. But that’s okay. It’s important sometimes just to read and absorb and reflect. Some answers just can’t be rushed.
Some items deserving your reflections:
1) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten homophobic, xenophobic, misogynist anti-vaxxers the freedom to advocate murder of anyone they hate.
2) Would Washington’s army have defeated the British without its chief money lender, overlooked in most history classes? And more importantly, why is he continually overlooked? Some might think it too disruptive of the false narrative that the country was founded by white male Christians.
3) For those who can’t do the simple math that exposes the fragile underpinnings of an economy without enough consumers, may be it’s worthwhile to consider whether the sense of peril that many Americans feel from accumulating a mountain of debt helps fuel violent extremism. Whether from the left or the right, much scorn is heaped on Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, an overinflated semi-mythical Deep State, the Rothschilds, the Koch Brothers, the DeVos family, etc. Why, then, are those perpetrating and advocating violence coming only from the rightwing?
Could it be that some monied powers are deliberately distributing conspiracy theories to shift the narrative away from their own backsides? I mean, this guy is doing it openly, but it sure seems like other wealthy rightwingers have been pretty busy sowing bad seed too. But is the truth that there’s nothing new about any of it?
I can’t, at the moment, provide any answers. I do think it’s all important to ponder it all so the answers will come.
And here’s one more imponderable: John Denver as an anti-racist entertainer.
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