We aren’t willfully participating in the atrocities being committed, but it’s impossible to divorce ourselves from what our leadership does in our name, and this is the struggle so many of us find ourselves in.
JFK, in his "City on a Hill" speech talked about responsibility and duty. He talked about gratitude and a connection that exists and binds all Americans through the generations.
Artificial Intelligence, like any new technology, can either be a useful tool or a deadly weapon. We shouldn’t be afraid of progress, but we should be very worried about sacrificing one another and ourselves on the altar of that supposed progress.
Trump and his cronies could not be happier with the DNC right now. Their incompetence and misdirected attention for the past year and half could spell the death of this country and our Constitution. Time for a change, and a big one.
Jeff Bezos and America’s gilded elite have revealed themselves completely now. The masks are gone. They are men so rich they can buy anything, except dignity.
The generations that defeated fascism in the 1770s, 1860s, and 1940s understood something simple but profound: democracy survives only if ordinary people are willing to defend it. Are we today?
Because grifting chutzpah is his nature, and because there’s never enough money to fill the ugly gaping hole where his soul should be, Trump is still running penny-ante scams.