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Questions for a Sunday two weeks before the election

 Why does CNN have links to Saturday Night Live skits on its front "page"?  That's the best we can do? The media lives to perpetuate itself.

More to come. 

I just wrote a rant and mistakenly erase it, or didn't save it correctly. It compared Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, which I taught this morning, to the supposed need for abortion at all stages of pregnancy for any reason. In Abraham's time child sacrifice was common to appease pagan gods. Today is it done to appease the god of self, prosperity, career, and convenience, so that women can have the freedom to have the same irresponsible sexual freedom (they believe) men have (and some do). Some abortion protections are needed, and those can be debated. But one party, and maybe the second, believes any protections for the unborn are the end of democracy and civil rights.  

I also wrote how it strikes me that anti-Trumpers who used to be Republicans can come off very pompous and self-righteous in their Facebook posts, riling their "friends" who are Trump voters in order to .... what? Appear open-minded and smarter?  It's not their position, it's their expression of their position. The medium is the message (the medium being cutesy Facebook memes). 

I am not a Trump fan, never was, but January 6 sealed the deal, and even less since he has changed his mind on pro-life issues to "broaden his electorate," yet he can't act like a decent human in his rhetoric to do the same.  

We live in an extremist, black-white, either-or culture wrapped around personalities, one that represents incompetence and the other lack of character. And we are supposed to choose? Fortunately we don't have to, if we aren't worried about winning.



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