Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

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(09-22-2022, 04:23 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Hmmm, apparently the Texas sheriff who expressed intent to investigate DeSantis is getting death threats.  Maybe DeSantis is going to be more popular with the essential "domestic terrorist" wing of the GOP that is so essential for election these days after all.  The "law and order" party is breaking the law to protect a politician who may have broken the law by shipping migrants who tried to legally enter this country and they are doing so by threatening the life of a sheriff who is only expressing a desire to do his job and enforce the law.  Gah, this is deliciously insane.



https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/sheriff-texs-desantis-death-threats-b2172265.html

Carl Sagan saw the writing on the wall with the yet-to-be MAGA crowd in 1996

Quote:I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...


The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance