In one form or another, this is basically the rationalization that warmongers always use to justify their own awfulness. As an American, I’ve been listening to my own country deploy this gem my entire life.
The ethos of these people is largely about enforcing the dominion of men over women.* This divorce stance is about disempowering women. Abortion is about disempowering women. The move they are about to make against contraception, about removing agency from women. Age of consent, ditto. Given the opportunity, they would absolutely remove women’s right to vote, own property, maintain credit, and on and on. This is the culture that’s dominating the Republican Party and they face very little meaningful opposition right now.
To be fair, they are also guided by a profound desire to enforce the racial dominion of what they perceive as white.
As an organization, they are actively and intentionally interfering with electoral politics. Their lifetime appointments were designed to remove them from that dynamic, but they have decided to bypass that principle. The structure of our federal government is designed to deal with problems like this by having the other branches check them when they step out of line like this. Unfortunately, neither of the other branches have shown any desire to take action. As a result we are currently caught in a self-reinforcing death spiral of anti-democratic corruption that will eventually undo the union unless something changes. What a time to be alive.
The Al Jazeera report that you link to only claims that Houthis launched missile and drone attacks at a US ship. It makes no claim that they seriously damaged or sunk a US ship. Here is a BBC/MSN report that describes similar things. www.bbc.com/news/articles/c800j14y38xo?xtor=AL-72… what exactly are you claiming is false in the Al Jazeera report? Both reports also describe US actions against Houthis targets, which would be a strange thing to do if the Houthis aren’t in fact doing something (even if it is a very ineffective something).
“The arts help us learn to be more than consumers. They teach problem-solving skills, train children to work together and develop empathy for others.”
The prevailing culture in the US right now doesn’t value education in any regard other than workplace enablement. We want dutiful, controllable populace that contributes to GDP, and that’s it. I almost never hear leaders or even educators, talk about the value of education beyond its contributions to career development, job prospects and income. We are shortsighted and pathetic.
Wasn’t making fun of Biden for using teleprompters because that meant he was old and feeble and unqualified a big thing for trump and his minions not long ago?
It’s not surprising that the lot of them are a self interested bigots. For some reason I continue to be surprised at just how intellectually weak these men tend to be and how willing they are to voice their ignorance. These guys either lack a lot of self awareness, or they’re just thriving in the post-reality culture that seems to be taking hold.
I’m old enough to remember when 24 hours ago the Biden administration said that a ground assault in Rafah would be crossing its red line. It’s pretty easy to remember because that was about 48 hours after the Biden administration said that just ‘going in’ to Rafah would be crossing its red line.
A further symptom of the fascism currently metastasizing across our society — fueled by greedy self-interested Republicans and facilitated by a cowardly self-interested Democrats