This is entirely consistent with our manifest historical tendency toward short-sightedness. That began when we instituted a government supposedly based on freedom and human rights while maintaining slavery. We’re still paying for that one.
The current squabble going on over the ERA is the echo of another. We excluded nearly half our citizens from the franchise until 1919 and far too many of us have continued to play a similar game since.
Then of course we re-elected to the presidency a man who utterly disdains our electoral process, our Constitution, and the rule of law - all because a lot of us were irritable over a couple of current situations, several of some of which were significantly amplified by an outpouring of lies and distortions so blatant as to boggle the imagination.
I am appalled by the destruction going in California, and I feel deeply for those who are suffering so much loss. But as Mr. Linker notes, they largely brought in themselves through hubris and shortsightedness.
climate change? it's overcrowding. That's it.
This is entirely consistent with our manifest historical tendency toward short-sightedness. That began when we instituted a government supposedly based on freedom and human rights while maintaining slavery. We’re still paying for that one.
The current squabble going on over the ERA is the echo of another. We excluded nearly half our citizens from the franchise until 1919 and far too many of us have continued to play a similar game since.
Then of course we re-elected to the presidency a man who utterly disdains our electoral process, our Constitution, and the rule of law - all because a lot of us were irritable over a couple of current situations, several of some of which were significantly amplified by an outpouring of lies and distortions so blatant as to boggle the imagination.
I am appalled by the destruction going in California, and I feel deeply for those who are suffering so much loss. But as Mr. Linker notes, they largely brought in themselves through hubris and shortsightedness.
Excellent explanation