Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "Thom Hartmann Program"
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I’m so glad you covered how the Democrats and the Republicans “switched places”, and you used the term “Dixiecrats”. It is all very true, and I don’t think enough people realize it. The Vietnam War was the first time I got at all political as I was a hippie at the time, so, of course, I was anti-war, especially anti-stupid wars in which we shouldn’t have gotten involved in the first place, and Vietnam was one of those situations. I learned that there’s almost no war, in any country in the world that the U.S. won’t happily jump into as war is extremely lucrative, and it also increases our appearance of power. And there’s almost no war in any country in the world that the U.S. wouldn’t happily create, for the same reasons, though they’ll make up some humanitarian-sounding reason even when there’s absolutely nothing humanitarian about it. I also have the Kent State shooting by the National Guard etched into my consciousness as I was in college in Florida at the same time those students were getting gunned down in Ohio. (That was also Nixon, well before Reagan). Then, as I am a woman, I got very involved in the feminist movement, and it’s still my primary socio-political interest. This past few years has really brought that topic, along with their motivations for sublimating women even more egregiously than they have in the last fifty years. They really want to go back to living in the past when it comes to controlling and punishing, and even damaging and/or killing women and girls. You know, real “pro-life” stuff (*sarcasm). I’m definitely a Democratic Socialist, á la Bernie Sanders, and possibly going a bit to the left of that ideal as well. The things that the “other side” is doing now are so regressive and harmful, especially with its adoption of far-right Christianity that it’s actually frightening, and we must stay very aware of everything they’re up to and crush it with our votes and our voices. We need to get into the streets of every city in the country by multiples of thousands every day that we are able to. This political takeover HAS to be stopped or we will definitely descend into fascism, which can happen very quickly, and that’s something I NEVER want to see in this magnificent country. I hope I didn’t rant too long, but you got me fired up! Thank you for all your great informative programs.
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Thanks, Thom, for another exciting and uplifting interview. Dr. Greyson is a treasure. He’s scientifically trained, and he was originally skeptical, but has had his mind opened to different possibilities by collecting thousands of stories, and after sharing stories with other trained doctors, and seeing that many of the patients’ stories matched in certain regards, it’s hard not to become a believer, at least on some level. I have also read a number of books on the subject, and find them to be some of the most incredible stories. I find this subject, and field of study to be absolutely fascinating, and I find myself hoping to have an NDE, or for that to be my experience whenever I die. I love that many of the stories are not religious experiences per se, but more spiritual in a non-religious manner, which I would prefer, as I find the ones where people say they spoke to Jesus to be outside my comfort zone, particularly because they often mimic the patient’s personal religious beliefs. I tend to think, as one person once stated in another book I read that perhaps the image of Jesus or another religious figure appearing could just be the “being’s” way of presenting themselves as a way to make the patient more comfortable. Who knows? Perhaps we’ll all find out someday.
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And this is exactly why we need the Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution. And it’s also exactly why Republicans in Congress (right now the particular group is headed by Mitt Romney and Ron Johnson, and another Senator from Ohio, I think, but I can’t remember his name) are constantly fighting against putting the ERA into the Constitution every time it comes up for a vote in Congress, especially after Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the ERA in 2020.
Also remember how Republicans started whining about a study coming out a few years ago about how the U.S. population was starting to decline because it would negatively impact the amount of workers corporations would have in the future. (And which is also undoubtedly why some Red states like Arkansas have voted to overturn their child labor laws!).
Remember, too, that Justice Alito, in his decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, cited for reference some judge in England who lived in the 1500s or 1600s who also sentenced witches to be burned at the stake! Maybe it’s just me (sarcasm), but I somehow don’t think we should be basing our American 21st Century laws on the laws of a 14th or 15th Century “legal scholar” from England, besides the fact that the United States was created and broke away from England and wrote a new Constitution to get away from those old religious-based laws.
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