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H.H. Rose's avatar

And Carl Sagan saw what America has become.

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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McCarthy is afraid of what the investigation will reveal about Republicans in Congress. It turns out that up to a dozen GOP Congresspeople were involved in inciting the Jan 6th rioters and helping to plan the riot (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/politics/republicans-capitol-riot.html?referringSource=articleShare). Rightfully, McCarthy was outraged by the riot, and by Trump’s role in it, immediately after it happened. Then he learned of the involvement of folks like Gosar, Brooks, Biggs, MTG, Jordan, Gohmert and others, and realized how disastrous the investigation will be for Republican election prospects. So he flip-flopped. More power to Nancy Pelosi and Liz Cheney for pushing forward to expose these treasonous Republicans.

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