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A question for the ages:
How can Americans lower the likelihood of having to suffer through another sucky administration in the future? Stemming the propaganda would help a lot.
It will take decades to reverse the “fake news” trend, but it’s possible. The ways to do it involve lots of learning:
- The American education system must teach critical thinking— in order to raise awareness of debating, public-speaking and propaganda techniques. In 1914, Oxford professor John Alexander Smith told his students the following: “…if you work hard and intelligently, you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole purpose of education.”
- Americans must read or listen to a vast quantity of entire books of nonfiction personal accounts written by all different stakeholders with different perspectives of the same historical incident or person or place or institution– and note which information is common to most or all accounts– making that information more likely to be true.
- Americans must travel to get exposed to the rest of the world– get life-experience in true deprivation and trauma and learn gratitude for their living standards.
In sum, critical thinking, books and exposure to the world are a start. Everyone must reconcile science with religion in their own way, but keep in mind the philosophy, “Better to have unanswered questions than unquestioned answers.”
There are still an infinite number of unanswered questions about the second Trump administration, due to secrecy. However, the following song is a snapshot of the state of affairs in spring 2026.
SCENES FROM AN ORWELLIAN JUGGERNAUT
sung to the tune of “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” with apologies to Billy Joel and to whomever else the rights may concern. Please note: The lyrics in the beginning and end have been omitted because Prez T does not drink alcohol, and he is no longer a teenager. Only the “Brenda and Eddie” segment is relevant.
whoa whoa whoa oh oh oh whoa whoa whoa oh oh
Billionaires and Prez T are the populist steadies and the prez is drama queen of Iran, flying around with their GOP crowd, with their fancy PR on.
No one has more power. Fox is rewriting history by the hour.
We never knew they would take control of our lives.
We’re stuck now, with the prez’s scapegoating, profiteering spies.
whoa whoa whoa oh oh oh whoa whoa whoa oh oh
Billionaires and Prez T are still going steady with their Project 2025.
They’re a mean, greedy bunch of frat boys, still committing crimes.
They smear their foes like crazy.
AI software will make us ridiculously lazy.
Apparently GOP can afford to live that kind of life.
Oh, and the little people can’t wait to bid Prez T goodbye.
oh oh oh oh oh oh
Well the GOP’s losing ground and down for the count but they constantly play on our fears.
Need it be said we’re being led by chuckleheads who waste our tax dollars every year.
Internally they fight against threats to the Right.
They’re nervous as the midterms near.
whoa whoa whoa whoa Spouting cock-and-bull!
whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
They got the MAGA minds. Voters missed the strongman signs.
Politics is always the same in the end.
They rule by fear and force as a matter of course, and Americans see Big Brother trends.
Billionaires and Prez T stay on the green but YOU might never go there again.
oh oh oh oh
Billionaires and Prez T are getting a last squeeze of Project 2025.
They’re stooping so low at the end of their show. They’ve messed up our lives.
Dems will no longer be appeasers. Dems have got fewer reactionary geezers.
We’re sure they’ll rise again, by the by.
Oh, and that’s all I’ll say about billionaires and Prez T.
Do expect midterm lies and hypocrisy.
And here we are wishing Prez T would bleep bleep bleep bleep.
whoa whoa whoa oh oh oh whoa whoa whoa oh oh…