Quick blurb

Someone complained about r/USHistory was too negative. Here is my response:

One of the things about trying to be a better nation is that you really look at things, and when you look closely, you see a lot of things that could be improved. To me, pride in America is about trying to improve America and not just superficial self esteem boosts and participation trophies. Let's get this democracy working, let's do a good job for all Americans. If you're a white supremacist, you want a rigged system, that's what the roll back of DEI, and the firing of black and women generals in the military. Asking Texas to find 5 more senators isn't an American thing, the way you win seats is to be a popular president, but he's tanking in popularity as the economy tanks, and he knows he's going to be in trouble. If you really want to get chaos down, send troops into cities where there's high homicide rates, not DC. There's ways of doing things, and then there's ways of wrecking up the place, and just grifting protection scams. America was an amazing country from 1776-2025, but we've lost American exceptionalism by abandoning the rule of law by siding with Russia against Ukraine. The loss of the middle class is horrible, I mean there's very little to be proud of America about right now, unless you're a hate filled racist, who wants to wreck up the government because you don't like government--but he's not lowering taxes on anyone except the ultra rich. It's really quite a horrible day in America, and if you think things are going really well, then what can I say, you're not really into the vision of America, maybe you would like Italian fascism, Franco in Spain, or other chaotic violent right wing regimes, which is terrible for the people and the economy. America has been hoodwinked on many levels. 

Course if I wrote that it would be downvoted, and I remove downvoted posts quickly, so I'm not even going to post it.

Listening to Heather Cox Richardson on Katie Couric's substack, and I'm all cranked up. 

I get the point about negative load, they even talk about it, like you know you can't keep up with the onslaught of atrocity and wrongs. It's information blasting, a gish gallop. 

Toying with the idea of studying persuasive rhetoric, giving it an informal practice.