Political notes for September

My father expressed the fears he's the only democrat in Florida, and I looked it up. 4.3m democrats, 5m republicans, only 55.55% republican. Hardly overwhelming to me. 

He said we don't have access to the AI that knows a lot, that's writing code. I said if we don't know about it, we can't talk about it. He thought we could. I said, "Are you a republican now?" He laughed at that. 

History repeats itself, but we're in a new information age, which strangely has made us dumber with the growing pains. 

Herbert Hoover was the dumb conservative who made the great depression worse. FDR took us out of it. Biden was too early and too old to take us out of the recession we're in because of Trump, who is only good at wrecking things. Making the USA more independent doesn't work, it's a globe now, and you have to understand the times, not go back to some unrealistic and never happened fantasy of how things were. Great leaders understand the fantasy and lead us out of it's unrealisticness. 

There's never going to be a president that the left and right like, because political bias is just an aspect of our personality. Either you want to starve children or you want to feed children. Either you're overcome and transcended your childhood trauma and you're not afraid of empathy, or you think because it happened to you, go crueler. 

The supreme court rules you can use race stopping people but you can't in college admissions. What we've lost is integrity. America has regressed. That and shame. In Buddhism apatrapya is shame, for the good. 

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching (C. S. Lewis) and the current regime doesn't even care that people are watching.