I mean they champion their own oppression….why?
That’s right I said ‘oppression’!
I recently ask this question of my fellow Mississippi voters….
Magical Time In Mississippi
(This had been sent to a magazine, Mississippi Today, but so far no word if they will run it)
Now I see people are starting that very question of GOP voters as well….
When will Republican voters figure out how badly they’re getting screwed by Republican politicians?
— Desperate workers struggle with soaring rents (courtesy of Republican-donor hedge funds);
— lack of healthcare (12 GOP-controlled states still refuse to expand Medicaid for under-$15,000/year workers) is literally killing Americans;
— wages have flatlined since Reagan declared war on workers in 1981 while the merely rich have become the morbidly rich;
— Americans pay 10 times as much as Canadians for some drugs because Republicans block any effort to bring competition to that marketplace;
— at the same time Trump and his GOP buddies in the House and Senate borrowed $1.7 trillion to fund a tax giveaway to his billionaire buddies, student debt passed the $1.7 trillion mark…Yet somehow the “conservative” base voters never seem to figure it out. Why?
Most Republican voters don’t think much about it, but there are two very distinct layers to the GOP. It’s like a pyramid with a capstone at the very top.
The vast base of the pyramid are the white voters who Richard Nixon invited into the party after the Democrats embraced racial equality in 1964/1965 with the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
https://www.rawstory.com/thom-hartmann-2665383048/
So basically it is a racial thing?
Well….yeah!
Have you ever thought about what will replace t6he smartphone?
Just as the land line and the flip phone were replaced so shall the smart phone….but with what?
If aliens landed on Earth today and reported back what humans looked like, they might describe a glowing rectangular appendage attached to one of our dangling limbs.
Virtually everyone carries a smartphone today — about 93 percent of Americans — which makes it the most used technology in our lives, second only to TVs at 96 percent. (More Gen Z and millennials have a phone than a television.)
ven more impressive, perhaps, is the fact these things didn’t exist until just over 15 years ago.
And no wonder: Your smartphone has evolved into a digital Swiss Army knife, of sorts. Along with serving as a critical messaging tool, it’s also your web browser, camera and camcorder, music player, gaming console, navigation unit, step counter, flashlight, personal AI assistant, and digital wallet.
Oh, and the damn thing makes calls, too.
So, what’s next now that smartphones are mature and every new iPhone or Android is just a slightly faster and better version of the same glass slab?
One prediction is more screens — and perhaps even closer to (or on) our faces, such as mixed reality headsets that fuse the real world around you with digital information superimposed on top of your view. The other school of thought is fewer screens, maybe with smaller wearable devices, à la Internet of Things (IoT), and an “ambient computing” approach in which technology seamlessly (and somewhat invisibly) integrates into our daily lives, allowing us to return to being present.
https://www.inverse.com/tech/next-in-tech-after-smartphones
Smart phones is as far as it will go for me.