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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Just a Few Questions

 I want you to consider these few questions:

1.  Does kneeling during the national anthem change anything for the better?

2.  Does looting or burning of stores change anything for the better?

3.  Does suppression of free speech in the name of stamping out so called hate speech change anything for the better?

4.  Does keeping college students from hearing opposing points of view change anything for the better?

5.  Does removing personal responsibility for one's actions change anything for the better?

6.  Does removing statures and historical monuments from many decades or centuries ago change anything for the better?

7.  Does reducing police presence, particularly in high crime urban neighborhoods, in the name of Black Lives Matter change anything for the better?

8.  Does cancel culture in which a person can be suddenly fired or shunned because of something he or she said or did decades ago that conflicts with the current mores change anything for the better?

If you answered no to all of these questions, then you better carefully consider which presidential candidate you will be supporting in November.  Remember, Joe Biden has at one time or another during the current campaign answered every one of these question "yes!"  President Trump has answered every one "no!"

There are other question which are more nuanced where the candidates disagree.  Here's a good one:

If ending all fracking, all drilling for oil or gas on federal lands and all oil and gas exploration off shore would cost the USA roughly 1.5 million jobs, would you support taking those actions in the hope of reducing climate change even though the evidence suggests that there would be NO such effect?  Biden says yes while Trump says no.  For Biden, the hope of affecting climate change despite evidence that says there would be no such effect, outweighs the loss of 1.5 million American jobs.

Think about it.

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