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“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985

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Attention USA: “When Are More Americans Going to Speak Up?” - Mocking MAGA all day every day is not "Speaking Up" about the mockery, it is being a part of the total mockery. People anti-serious (www.newyorker.com)

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Attention USA: “When Are More Americans Going to Speak Up?” - Mocking MAGA all day every day is not "Speaking Up" about the mockery, it is being a part of the total mockery. People are unable to be serious.

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/cory-booker-america-needs-moral-leadership-and-not-political-leadership

"This is a time when America needs moral leadership, and not political leadership."

“And so as much as we want to point a finger at people who are elected to positions, which is justified, I also want to ask a lot of other powerful people in this country who are remaining silent. We’ve seen what many corporate leaders are doing right now—instead of speaking up and speaking truth, they’re kowtowing for their own private deals.”

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He is still a fake progressive.

The problem is that the whole Untied States of America nation is not progressing, it's going backwards very fast in anti-progress anti-goodness values (I think largely driven by social media mass dehumanization attitudes and Twitter-think values, that Neil Postman was correct in year 1985).

He is still a fake progressive.

So would you say it is fair that the entire USA is "a fake progressive nation"?

“Moral leadership”, as he takes money from Israel in the form of PAC money, and only half-heartily voted against some of the arms sent to Israel.

I think we need to address the moral leaders of Israel directly, the Torah clergy, the Synagogue leaders, and Palestine too, the Quran leaders, the Mosque clergy. I'm offering [email protected] Remedial Morality lessons.

I spent two years in Amman Jordan studying morality of the Middle East socities, and they have a serious problem of preaching hate and dehumanizing of out-groups, "the others', when they encounter problems. This has been going on for hundreds of years, really thousands of years, and I think it is every person in the world's civic duty to start teaching them remedial morality and catch them up that you can't use modern weapons with 3,000 year old concepts of science and compassion.

“Moral leadership”, as he takes money from Israel

Why aren't people listening to Malala from Swat Valley, Pakistan, - she seems a better morality teacher than any of the politicians and clergy people are electing in the Middle East / Levant conflicts.

“I couldn’t understand what the Taliban were trying to do. “They are abusing our religion,” I said in interviews. “How will you accept Islam if I put a gun to your head and say Islam is the true religion? If they want every person in the world to be Muslim, why don’t they show themselves to be good Muslims first?” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, October 8, 2013.