Russia and Ukraine

 I watch what is happening in Ukraine and I feel so, so sorry for the people of this country.  They are being killed by a Russian Trump and if you think Trump is not cheering Putin on, then you are part of the problem.  Also when we have our news media trashing our elected president and patting Putin on the head, that is part of the problem.  The citizenry  in this country could stop this, but they won't.  They live in their little rabid bubble and it is more important to them to get and keep total control of our government than it is to defend our very democracy.  To them, they have a right to control every citizen's thought, speech and action in the name of "protecting freedoms" while all the while destroying those same freedoms.  It is Germany leading up to Nazi era all over again and throw in the mix that Russia is and we have a recipe for worldwide disaster.  There is a hellava lot of the citizens in this country that would back Russia if it tried to invade.  Think on that for awhile.  Around 40% of our citizenry would back a dictator over a duly elected government.  Why?  Because they are so focused on their butt hurt attitude and so focused on their own little bubble and being right that they can't and won't see what is happening in their very own country.  They will not be happy until they control every little aspect of the country, until they beat down and force every citizen in this country to fall lock step in with the vision they have for the country and that vision is very scary.  Our education system has failed and it has failed because of organized religion whipping people into a frenzy over trivial things so that there is no teaching.  There is no learning going on.  The schools have become a dumping ground for delinquents who are allowed to beat up teachers and that is the goal of the organized religious Nazis among us.  Don't think so?  Look around you.  Teachers cannot teach.  Teachers cannot discipline.  There is no cirriculum in the schools.  And anytime any school system attempts to actually teach students, you have those idiots whipped into a frenzy over lies.  Teachers are threatened on a daily basis.  Teachers are attacked on a daily basis.  Better wake up before it is too  last.  And if we descend into a civil war, it will be so much different this time.  All the bullies in the world will see their chance to create havoc all around the world.  We will be bombed.  We will probably face an invasion.  Canada is already making plans to deal with a dictatorship in the United States.  Let that sink in.  The Bastion of democracy is sliding into dictatorship and a huge part of the populace is all for it.  If that doesn't scare the shit out of you, then you are stupid beyond redemption.