It can't be my imagination that the republicans are getting worse by the day. I don't mean that literally. But close to literally. Extremist points of view have been normalized.
They are literally getting worse every day. Stuff that was insane fringe wingbat thinking in the 90s is now core parts of the plank.
I tried and failed to make a John Birch joke as my title.
I respect that :rat-salute-2:
One of my red in the blood union commie friends started going off about flouride in the water and when he saw I was looking at him with abject horror I got to explain the whole history of the John Birch Society and it's relation to, like, all of this.
A million years ago when I was young I learned just a tiny bit about them. They seemed beyond batshit. Once every decade or so - I'd remember them (and groups like them). In the 2000s it was clear to me that Pat Buchanan was on their wavelength.
But I was comfortable in the knowledge they were crazy outliers. Every country has them. It's a fact of life. At the very most Buchanan was going to run for president a few months and then be forced to drop out due to the majority of even right-wing people seeing he was nuts.
But Trump changed all that. He was a vector for the crazy. The alt-right was simply a rebranding of old toxic ideas the same way creationism was rebranded as intelligent design. Vocabulary changes but not much else. I was stunned that so many people didn't seem to grok this.
Then later Trump became the number one source of misinformation about covid. He became the vector of a literal disease. Biden said he'd "follow the science" but after he got elected he said "Fuck that!" and treated covid like a political problem. The US has 1,100,000+ covid dead and counting but covid is not news anymore.
We are living through an insane time.
It doesn't help when their opposition writes off their insanity as "opinions you disagree with." Enable the extremes enough and they eventually become mainstream.
Pulling all the copper wiring out for a quick buck without really asking why it was in there to begin with.
Most cites hve a large historic building in well zoned valuable areas. The money to be made of that real estate going public is enormous. Scams all the way down
this is absolutely going to backfire on them, but it will take the state years to get functional libraries again if this goes through
Every bad thing that will come out of this was the goal of doing it.
How come these dang kids are always glued on their ipad touches and game stores
Here's to the state of Missouri, the smartphone is cryin' when it reads the present year
So what can we do to help those libraries hold on as long as possible?
