We should examine the state of manufacturing in the US but it would lead to an uncomfortable examination of despite our gross incompetence why California continues to lead the nation in manufacturing.
Ask me again what the point is of supporting a Republican Party that collapses the economy, expands the size of government and the welfare state, spends us into trillions of debt, and whose answer to all of this is "raise taxes on the rich."
Cardinal Pizzaballa on Palm Sunday:
“We belong to Jesus...no space for hatred, remain Christian
We have to announce with our lives & gestures with what we say that no one can separate us from love for Jesus, from love for Jerusalem & from our Christian way of life in Holy Land”
It's not traditional conservatism, but this is pretty much all that MAGA boils down to:
"there must be an in-group for whom the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group for whom the law binds but does not protect”
Don’t intend to leave but trying to have normal interactions on here is genuinely starting to feel like being one of those provincial officials in late antiquity who kept writing ornate virgilian prose as literacy in the societies around them declined to the level of the Grunt