Apparently as a way to promote the Democratic Party leading into the 2022 midterm elections, President Biden is pushing through executive orders that make headlines but don’t have much practical effect. It seems to be helping at the polls, but what happens when voters learn the truth?
From the Monroe Doctrine to the ongoing blockade of Cuba, the United States has repeatedly exerted and exercised its prerogative to invade any country in its immediate region, up to and including the entire Western hemisphere, if it perceives a threat of any kind, whether real or imagined. So it’s a bit baffling that so many Americans violently deplore Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is right along its border, after Ukraine threatened to join NATO, an anti-Russian military alliance.
As we saw in Vietnam and elsewhere, what begins as relatively minor involvement in a proxy conflict overseas can gradually evolve into full-fledged warfare that costs billions of dollars and thousands of lives as the sunk-cost fallacy takes over. We can’t give up now. We’ve already invested too much.
Georgia senatorial candidate and former NFL star Herschel Walker is campaigning as militantly pro-life and anti-choice on abortion rights. But there is credible evidence that he paid for and endorsed an abortion that his girlfriend had in the past. Because they simply want to win, Republican officials and voters are happy to overlook his brazen hypocrisy.
Despite official media ethical guidelines that deplore the use of anonymous sources, major national news outlets continue to publish articles leaked by anonymous government officials without any sourcing whatsoever, often purely based on speculation. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to ignore this nonsense.
When it comes to shipping weapons to countries like Ukraine and Taiwan, money is no object. Billions of dollars are freely flowing. Meanwhile, Americans are lacking for basic needs like running water. In Jackson, Mississippi, there’s still no sign that residents will have clean water anytime soon.
American media outlets smugly report human rights abuses abroad while ignoring those at home. Case in point: Iranians outraged over the death of a woman in custody of the morality police over her hijab are getting prominent coverage in the US. Meanwhile, in at least 14 states, you can’t get an abortion for any reason. In Iran, on the other hand, abortion is still legal under some circumstances.
Employers are the biggest whiners ever. Most of the time there is an artificial job shortage that allows them to underpay and overwork and abuse employees. Sometimes, like now, there is a rare labor shortage. But when it’s their turn to adjust to economic reality, all they do is whinge and complain.
Whatever happened to civil disobedience? Abortion bans are a case in point. Pro-choice activists and physicians feel strongly that women should have the right to an abortion yet very few are willing to risk prison sentences or fines in order to challenge the system by breaking the law.
The governors of Florida and Texas have made news by exporting symbols of the migration crisis, asylum seekers themselves, to northern states like New York and Massachusetts. What if Northerners and leaders of other blue states were to return the favor by exporting their problems?
