I've was reading something recently about how quality paprika really makes a world of difference compared to the cheap red color dust you may have been using your entire culinary life. Have y'all found this to be true, and what do you have in your spice rack?
You haven’t heard of Reverend? They’ve been around for several decades making pretty interesting guitars. Maybe like Ernie Ball Music Man with 15% more Gretsch. I think they’re all Asian made now but they used to manufacture in the US. The aforementioned Koch Reverend, also in black and gold sparkle
https://www.swiftcreekguitars.com/sg-tele-style-electric.html
interesting. I kinda like this take on that hybrid-
wait no I don’t, that’s terrible.
what I do like is this -
i think it is fair to say that in the game of chicken where we see how far they'll stick that thing up there when their feelings keep getting hurt, team feather duster wins
Giving money to private charity is great. Giving money to private charity and working against government involvement in societal wellbeing is moral whitewashing. Same as schools - there’s nothing wrong with private schools but they absolutely cannot accomplish what the public schools do and giving money to private schools while rooting for the dismantling of public education does not make you pro education.
Joe Biden is, for a politician, about as likable as it gets. Describing this as not much more complicated than his unlikability papers over that any other person filling the role of Democratic Leader would and will be made to be at least as unlikeable. It’s not a function of how unlikeable the person is.
I think I’m likely missing some or much of your point, but I think a lot of what has driven the change in Americans is leveraging the feeling of unfairness. It’s not about good or bad, it’s about fair and unfair. Pandering messaging about what you deserve and what others do not deserve - it has won. People who by any right should be happy and secure in their lot, who loudly claim to value kindness generosity mercy goodness love etc, tell them that other folks are getting a free ride and they lose all perspective. Democrats suggesting that others have had disadvantages? They’re saying that *you* don’t deserve what you have. It’s all out the window. Just decades of that, all the goodness is gone and replaced with hate and bitterness that they don’t even recognize.