Wow. But 2 “justices” (I use the term loosely. cough) whose place on SCOTUS, along with all the trappings such as salaries, prestige, and power, depend on a certain outcome for a certain case..... refuse to recuse themselves. And that seems to be cool with the rest of SCOTUS, Congress, etc.
I told my husband this morning that I live in a universe most people don’t want to live in. Most people want to live in the alternate universe where we can still trust the government because we just don’t KNOW the shenanigans and crap they are doing routinely.
One of my sisters, who I greatly respect, told me at one point, “Nellie, if I believed what you do I couldn’t go on.” She didn’t want me to give her evidence because she had already decided that the conclusion she would have to reach if she had the facts was unbearable to live with. She’d rather just not know. I suppose I would rather just not know too, although it’s a bit late for that - except that hiding under the covers when you could be protecting yourself or your family in some real way seems irresponsible to me.
The media is trying to spin the AZ shooting to say that only “crazies” distrust the government. Doesn’t matter what evidence there is for a person’s belief; a person is just crazy if they think the government is corrupt.
And now it’s “incendiary” to even talk about the danger in what the government is doing - even what they are doing overtly, such as policy, etc, that the talk radio hosts limit themselves to discussing, much less the covert crap they’re documentably doing.
The basic gist of everything the media is doing is that it isn’t HOW a person thinks, or the evidence they process - but WHAT they think that must be regulated, silenced, and called crazy. Just like the schools don’t teach kids HOW to think, but WHAT to think. It’s not about processing evidence and reasoning it out. It’s about what conclusions are OK to reach and which are verboten. It’s post-modernism on steroids - that we make our own truth as we see it and the facts be damned.
Dangerous, unsustainable ground.
Butter, Sis (and my 3) is in there with 90% of the people. The people of Troy were warned about the horse. Welcome to the world of the uncomfortable 10%. We'll be joined by another 2-3% when gas hits $5. When a loaf of bread hits $10. When they lose their jobs. Are we the Weimar Republic? Next two years will tell the tale, although the "recovery" could take another 5, or longer.
We will not be the first Republic in history that hit the skids. My children and grandchildren assure me, "We can handle it!" LOL.
"Run into the roundhouse, Nellie. Nobody can corner you there!"