I find it contemptible that ten House Democrats voted to censure Rep. Al Green for disrupting Congress.
Democrats had many ways in which they could have protested President Trump’s State of the Union Speech. Outside of Rep. Al Green’s protest, Democrats did little to show/voice their displeasure.
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have been holding rallies from coast to coast, condemning Trump’s decimation of the Federal Government. We need similar rallies everywhere.
Joe Biden blamed Donald Trump for the economy he inherited in 2021, and now Trump is blaming Biden for the current state of the economy. That’s politics. However, a few months from now, after Trump has caused a recession, the blame will be his alone.
Vladimir Putin is obsessed with returning Russia to the glory days of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Countries such as Poland rightly fear being invaded, especially now that the United States is no longer interested in helping and protecting their allies.
I predict Donald Trump will try to remove the United States from NATO.
Whatever one may think about Ukraine, we committed to help defend them from Russia’s immoral, violent assault on their sovereignty. Sadly, President Trump has abandoned the Ukrainian people.
“The Art of Making a Deal,” my ass. President Trump is not a deal maker, he’s a narcissistic bully who seems hellbent on destroying anyone and everyone he disagrees with. We can only hope, that as he rages against his alleged enemies and nuzzles up to dictators and fascists, he doesn’t drag us into a major war.
It’s doubtful the world will do much about global climate change now that the United States has abandoned renewable energy and electric vehicles. “Drill baby Drill” is our official climate policy now.
Americans should be concerned over Trump’s attacks on institutions of higher learning, professors, media companies, and journalists. His goal is to silence anyone who speaks ill of him or challenges his policies. In doing so, he is trampling under foot the constitutional rights of every American.
Bonus: I continue to ponder my political future. If, as I fear, the national Democratic Party is broken beyond repair, is it time for me to leave the party? Or, do I remain a Democrat and focus on local issues, even though there is zero chance of a Democrat beating a Republican in my lifetime? Or, do I act on that increasingly nagging feeling I have; that it is time for me to invest my time, money, and talent in a third party?
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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It is nearly impossible for a third party to win. Instead, they act as spoilers, taking votes from one of the Democratic or Republican nominee. It’s awful. I am completely disgusted with our leaders, period.
Racist comment about Rep. Al Green deleted.
I recall that towards the end of last year Trump was taking credit for the stock market surge, on the basis that the markets were anticipating less regulatory controls. It’s likely there was an element of truth in that, though Biden seems to have achieved a sound, but sadly underrated, economic base for growth that also helped the markets. Now Trump continues to blame Biden. It’s though his own daily, totally inconsistent and economically insane, pronouncements that the markets have fallen, because finally it’s become clear that he isn’t joking any more. Up until now economic pundits seem to have (wishful thinking?) assumed that Trump actually was just issuing threats and that really he had an underlying game plan. He didn’t, he’s as nutty as everyone thought he was only pretending to be.
Art of the Deal? Don’t make me laugh. Art of the Feel would have been more appropriate.
Hello Bruce,
Hopefully this little run on nice weather is buoying your spirits. Time to eat Claritan for me, but I still try to get out
and enjoy the tulips trees turning and the trappings of spring to come.
Thank you for your 3/10 Hot Take. I agree with you in totality. You (or your readers) may want to consider catching a recent podcast by David Brooks (Republican) on:
How the Elite rigged Society (and why it’s falling apart).
David of course was a long time PBS conservative commentator. I think you will find his podcast dovetails nicely with your hot take.
I did not post a link because I’m not sure if that’s allowed on your site.
I’m so disappointed in and disillusioned with the USA. So many of the citizens are apathetic, completely uninformed or misinformed, and they don’t seem to be educated enough to search for truth. Many are just plain selfish and mean. Our high ideals of freedom, equality, pursuit of happiness and success seem to be just words, oftentimes distorted into tools of oppression. The embrace of Donald Trump and his cronies is proof of how utterly broken our nation is. I don’t know if it’s reparable. Maybe no nation is.
I would have voted to censure Al Green. I approve of his message, but if there is no censure, then every congressperson will start using disruption to get their message out. If I was a Democratic rep, then my interest would be to apply the same standard to a future Democratic President. For example Dumb and Dumber Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene should have been censured as well when they hooted at Biden.
Wile Democrats seem feeble (one pundit pointed out the apt metaphor of an old man waving a cane), that’s OK, the governing party is judged on their ability to govern, not the talking points in the non governing party. There might be something to James Carville’s “play ‘possum” strategy. Democrats don’t need to destroy a party that is destroying itself. Then there also is the issue they are out in the cold anyway and little signs are about the best they can do. Is damage being done? YES, but Trump seems to be doing everything by Executive order, and what can be wrought with a pen and be dispelled just as easily with a pen.
As for 3rd party, let the voter beware, my understanding is Putin himself was propping up the Jill Stein campaign.