Jeff Stahler for January 10, 2024

Fact: Erosion. Because there wasn’t enough water / soil nutrients to support plants to stabilize the soil. "

Let’s NOT let this happen elsewhere.

Divisive republican anti democracy politics. They won’t cooperate at all and won’t come up with a budget, while at the same time they run racist liar Trump to be a fascist dictator.

In general, a typical karst landscape forms when much of the water falling on the surface interacts with and enters the subsurface through cracks, fractures, and holes that have been dissolved into the bedrock.

Misinformation and lies.

The GQP convinces some of the peasants that some of the other peasants are the problem, so that they’ll fight each other instead of fighting the ones pulling the strings.

Gonna be one of the worst election years in history, including those that included duels and the yellow journalism [of which we already have an overstock] from a century or more ago.

It isn’t Politics that causes rifts, it’s personalities!!

America is not a democracy. It is a republic. Yet we traditionally held to democratic principles where people are willing to make sacrifices for the common good.

It’s difficult to be willing to make these sacrifices when you are misled and scared into seeing everyone who is not like you as your enemy. You become racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, Islamaphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, you-name-it-phobic and just plain selfish and greedy. Your immediate reaction is to build a wall between you and the rest of the world (and get the Mexicans to pay for it.)

We have a mental health crisis in this country: Isolationism. People are afraid to have personal relationships with others anymore. To allow others to see you as another person, flawed as we all are, is a sign of weakness. People would rather fall and fail than to ask another person to help them. Yet they expect demigods to rescue them. Isolationism leads to depression, suicide and violence.

Looks like the highways after the Republicans were through with them.

Can’t you see how bad the other side looks? What do you mean it looks no different?

Causing a great divide between us!!!

The biggest gaps were caused by Fox News and the rest of the Fox wannabe conservative media demagogues. Their lies feed the masses, of non critical thinkers, who willingly vote against their best interest because they believe and want to believe the lies. The major media is owned by the same people who own the politicians. The wealthy owners benefit from low to no taxes and a lack of regulation for their industries. Their concern for the future only goes as far as their next quarter’s profits. They currently own more Republican politicians than Democratic politicians.

And now tRump’s bid for blanket immunity is in the works. He’s promised bedlam if he doesn’t get his way. One of the judges asked his legal team if that meant the president could legally order an assassination of a political rival. Does anybody know what their answer was?