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If the courts rule against the current administration - there's going to be a MASSIVE budget gap. Rosy tariff and fee forecast was used to justify the increased government spending. You know how it goes; spend first and oops, we didn't get as much money as we projected.
Wonk Wonk...........

 

How far can you push a delusion against reality when you want to believe it?
MAGA farmers are losing their farms and blaming it on the Democrats.
Auto workers are losing their jobs and blaming it on Canada.
There's no limit on the depths of stupid.

 

That's what politics are all about, a blame game.

I went to the job with a fellow worker who listened to his conservative podcast that went on and on how the liberals have this deep state that is secretly trying to make the USA a third world country and kill off all the citizens in a civil war and through acts of terrorism.

 

I have absolutely zero empathy for someone who shrugs and says "that's how things are."

 

Nobody has empathy these days.

I feel like a stupid idiot of mentioning some of my problems here on this forum because nobody cares. My kids watched their mother die a horrible death yet nobody cares. It must all be my fault.

 

Yer right.
Nobody cares.

 

Is lack of empathy because more people are now diagnosed on the spectrum? Is that because of so many chemicals in our over processed petro chemical fertilizers & pesticides? Food dyes? Multiple vaccinations? Poor parenting? Who knows

 

People with great influence actively discouraging it?

Empathy isn't a sin. It's a risk.

I do get the sense from history that the project of getting smart bipedal primates to change their behavior in a more-civilized direction has been very long and slow and fraught with difficulty, depending for every inch of progress on steady, consistent application of the best ideas from centuries of religions and philosophers and teachers and writers and mentors ... but it's like greased lightning to get the same bipedal primates to change their behavior in the old direction again, just by showing a few examples in positions of influence, and kind of giving permission.

 

Empathy is not all inclusive or deserved.

 

Let's see man breaks the law declaring a fake emergency to tax the working and middle class then gives the money to the super rich. Then says he needs those illegal taxes to expand government and give those tax breaks. Allowing this is true corruption. The solution is lower government spending and not pass these taxes to pay for breaks for the super rich.

I'm not sure what this has to do with the thread but empathy rises and falls. Empathy according to studies has fallen in the last 50 years. Factors considered are economic insecurity, exposure to more negative news, and technology changes. I doubt that more people being diagnosed on the spectrum contributes, as there were always people on the spectrum but we do have more people on the spectrum and those without empathy controlling more things. Processed foods could contribute IMHO,. Vaccinations are doubtful only really poor studies seem to say that. It is easy to lack empathy on social media, often you are rewarded by it, but my aquaintances that seem the worst on social media often are good people in person.

 

It's a strength (or a weakness) of our species, to be able to switch off our empathy when we choose.