I was taking an evening walk after doing the day's chores, with the odd combination we see so often today of modern technology yet potentially a deep appreciation for history.
I was listening to this song https://youtu.be/l9HYmaUQdbM as I took in the sunset It occurred to me how so many of today's "progressive" liberal Democrats are so obsessed over materialism and preening and virtue signaling, and whatever else they can do to use lies and cheating and stealing and violence to gain an advantage over their fellow humans, that it is really sad. Yet so many of them are so un-self-aware that they would claim to be 'advocates for the environment' and 'advocates for peace and justice'. You can't even share such a moment like this with them, because they have to politicize it and somehow say it's bad because of global warming or climate change or orange-man-bad...
I guess there have always been clueless and selfish and ignorant people in the world, who are more interested in materialism and hating anyone 'different' - all while claiming to be 'inclusive' or 'tolerant' or somehow morally or intellectually superior (
) to those of different melanin content or religion or upbringing. Enough so they justify everything from political cronyism to outright despotism and everything in between. These are today's 'progressives' who pee on anything positive the JFK Democrat era had to offer, and flaunt ignorance of the very things they demand to control. They have zero understanding of history, economics, epidemiology, firearms, or anything else they arrogantly want to dictate. So many of these fellow citizens have thrived in the environment the United States has uniquely created, with equality under the law, and a fundamental Bill of Rights establishing the individual as sovereign and in control of their government, unlike anything history has ever produced before. Yet these same people are tearing down the most fundamental principles of civilization and freedom and humanity, because it is more important to them to virtue signal and get the government to do whatever is necessary to get them an advantage, somehow disguised as 'helping the downtrodden'...
The disguise is so thin that a third grader could see through it.Thankfully I can still walk down to the river bottom to enjoy the sunset and the beauty of Venus and sandbar tracks of next-year's venison can put it in perspective.
