Lies! It's all lies!

Still applicable unfortunately

  Who here has heard the Green Day song "American Idiot"? I'm assuming a fair number of you have. It was incredibly popular around 2005 and was damn near impossible to escape for a few years there. If you haven't heard the song before, the gist of it is that the singer feels America is becoming a slave to propaganda and a hidden agenda, and he doesn't want to be any include here because of true they are.

One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.
-Green Day, American Idiot (2004)

   I can share the feeling. I've been thinking lately that the far right has become so swayed by their talking heads that there really is no longer a way to change their opinions. Anything that a liberal says will be deflected as "posturing and lies put forth by the liberal media to further their evil objectives". What can we do?

Money Talks and Bullshit Walks

  I've seen a fair number of headlines now about Donald Trump's bailout of the Carrier Company. The gist of it, as far as I can tell, is that he gave incredibly lavish tax breaks to an air conditioning company, in order to incentivize keeping jobs in the United States rather than shipping them overseas. There are two major issues with this deal. The first issue is that these tax breaks are not sustainable on any level beyond a single corporation. Donald Trump risks massive fiscal catastrophe if he goes around throwing out tax breaks to every US company that threatens to move jobs overseas. The second issue is that Donald purportedly holds a large portion of Carrier stock. That's right, he likely stood to gain financially from this company bailout. He's not even in office yet and he's already knee-deep in corruption.

Bernie or Bust? Bad idea.

 

Let me begin this by saying that I would have been thrilled to have Bernie Sanders as the candidate for the Democratic party in 2016. I would have been thrilled to have him as our United States president. But he was beaten by Hillary Clinton in the primary and lost his chance to run for president on the Democratic ticket. So why did people still vote for him on election day?