I didn’t watch Green Day’s performance on New Year’s Eve, but kudos to Billie Joe and the band for knocking the MAGA crowd.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/green-day-maga-agenda-lyric-american-idiot-1234938852/
I’ve given up trying to understand people who want to see Trump back in the White House. They can’t see that it’s a case of, “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.” They’re idiots, and I say that admitting Trump probably would have been re-elected in 2020 if not for his incompetence in managing the pandemic. Incredibly, based on recent polls he stands a very good chance of being elected again.
My purity test for Trump supporters:
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- What is your level of education?
- Did you watch The Apprentice?
The mess we’re in goes back to Reagan, who was “Goldwater Lite,” saying government is the problem. What’s astounding to me is that, in the 60’s, both Reagan on the Right and the Hippies on the Left had the same message at the same time. They were both against government intrusion in the lives of Americans, but with very different ideas of what that meant.
I’ll take the hippie label, we didn’t want to fight in an unjust war, or be jailed for smoking mother nature, but we supported a strong welfare state and wished to strengthen and enlarge it. As Bernie and I still do. We believe that WWII was our last just war.