It's Getting Hot In Here!

It's getting hot in here!

Last month set record global temperatures for July.  But record busting has become fairly routine now, hasn't it? It doesn't really mean anything, does it?  The minority viewpoint that global warming isn't real, and isn't a threat, has managed to capture the federal government, and the majority of states as well.  Over time, the courts will become more and more slanted to defend corporate interests, not environmental interests (some corporations have begun to wake up to the reality of climate change, but I don't know if they'll be enough to help reverse the terrifying course we're on).

Maybe August won't set a record.  Maybe the few minutes of the eclipse will be enough to bring the average down.  Yeah.  Sure.

It's getting hot in here!

The economy set in place by the previous administration continues to chug along pretty well, heating us to the lowest unemployment rate in over a decade. How long this will continue is any one's guess. Most administrations set bubble economies that super heat for awhile, and then cool off and crash. The tech bubble and housing bubble are past examples.  Obama is the only one I know who set the economy on steady growth rather than nova-like bubbles.  We have a con man in charge now, and if he ever figures out the levers of power, he may do what con men do best - create an economic bubble that only lasts so long, and when it freezes and falls, everyone is hurt except he and his wealthy buddies.

It's getting hot in here!

It's getting hot on my Facebook feed, as the kid gloves are off!  Tuesday's presser revealed Trump to be the racist Nazi sympathizer he is, in a way that even his most rabid supporters can no longer deny. If you are still with him after that, then you are undeniably a racist as well.  You have no more excuses.  No place left to hide.  And I'm through with not calling you out.

Yes, it's true.  I have good friends who still cling to Trump.  And many of them are good people, kind and generous, loving and caring, covered with sugar and puppy dogs.  It's hard to dislike them intensely.  But the fact is, in Nazi Germany, there were a lot of "good people" who either supported Hitler, or were silent in the face of his vast evil.  The ability to bifurcate and compartmentalize is an amazing and dangerous thing - just ask Bill "I never had sexual relations with that woman" Clinton.

For awhile, there will be fewer pictures of family and pets, fewer niceties and pleasantries.  This is a defining moment.  The one where you'll have to explain your choices to future generations.

We all like to think we would be on the right side of history.  That we would have done what we could to stop Hitler.  That we would have fought against slavery.  That we would stand up against the forces of darkness.

Now is that time.  It's getting hot in here, too hot to ignore.

Where do you stand?