For 28 years, I was a blue collar union activist and local pol campaign mgr. I fought the neolib elite that usurped the D party; they dumped the New Deal, abandoned labor, passed finance deregulation, and signed profoundly undemocratic treaties like NAFTA and the WTO.
They did for displaced Rust Belt workers (now suffering deaths of despa…
For 28 years, I was a blue collar union activist and local pol campaign mgr. I fought the neolib elite that usurped the D party; they dumped the New Deal, abandoned labor, passed finance deregulation, and signed profoundly undemocratic treaties like NAFTA and the WTO.
They did for displaced Rust Belt workers (now suffering deaths of despair) same as they did to the Wall Street vultures of 2008: NOTHING!
The D party only represents the admin and professional 10-20%. Same types as the well paid bureaucrats who make oligarchies and dictatorships possible by keeping them running. We lessers, the majority working class, are quite aware that HRC's "basket of deplorables" includes all of us. A perverse form of solidarity.
We humans are finally bumping up against our environmental limits. The wealthy are really full on parasites. We can no longer afford their very expensive bullshit. Democracy is the best system, in my opinion, for creating consensus and dealing realistically and sensitively with complex environmental and social issues as well as prioritizing justice as foundational to governance. Capitalism prioritizes profit over everything. Everything. Hoarding is a mental illness, not the basis of a successful society.
The 1%ers, the biz Rs, and the lapdog D bureaucrats are certain they'll survive whatever happens. They think they can buy everything.
Just before the 1999 WTO, (huge demonstrations against which now known as "The Battle of Seattle") there were teach-ins at the U of WA. A prof of biz econ claimed "The Market" would solve all problems, including water shortages. Because in a desert, water is more valuable than diamonds, thus conserved. During the Q & A afterward, I asked if that meant conditions must deteriorate to desert before the model would work. He turned bright red and told me I didn't know what I was talking about. On the ferry home, alt. economist David Korten told me that's how you know you have them--the deflection and anger.
I'd bet nothing effective will be done. Official excuse that it would cost too much, harm the economy. Real reason--the elite considers it unnecessary. Their econ theory defines away devastation of communities and environments as externalities, therefore unimportant. And as the fittest, the superior, the winners, they deserve their lavish lifestyles.
It looks more and more as if Kim Stanley Robinson's eco sci-fi 2020 book, //The Ministry of the Future,// is not fiction but an accurate prediction. Not only of what rising temps will do, but how monstrous yachts and private planes are, shall we say, discouraged.
For 28 years, I was a blue collar union activist and local pol campaign mgr. I fought the neolib elite that usurped the D party; they dumped the New Deal, abandoned labor, passed finance deregulation, and signed profoundly undemocratic treaties like NAFTA and the WTO.
They did for displaced Rust Belt workers (now suffering deaths of despair) same as they did to the Wall Street vultures of 2008: NOTHING!
The D party only represents the admin and professional 10-20%. Same types as the well paid bureaucrats who make oligarchies and dictatorships possible by keeping them running. We lessers, the majority working class, are quite aware that HRC's "basket of deplorables" includes all of us. A perverse form of solidarity.
We humans are finally bumping up against our environmental limits. The wealthy are really full on parasites. We can no longer afford their very expensive bullshit. Democracy is the best system, in my opinion, for creating consensus and dealing realistically and sensitively with complex environmental and social issues as well as prioritizing justice as foundational to governance. Capitalism prioritizes profit over everything. Everything. Hoarding is a mental illness, not the basis of a successful society.
The 1%ers, the biz Rs, and the lapdog D bureaucrats are certain they'll survive whatever happens. They think they can buy everything.
Just before the 1999 WTO, (huge demonstrations against which now known as "The Battle of Seattle") there were teach-ins at the U of WA. A prof of biz econ claimed "The Market" would solve all problems, including water shortages. Because in a desert, water is more valuable than diamonds, thus conserved. During the Q & A afterward, I asked if that meant conditions must deteriorate to desert before the model would work. He turned bright red and told me I didn't know what I was talking about. On the ferry home, alt. economist David Korten told me that's how you know you have them--the deflection and anger.
I'd bet nothing effective will be done. Official excuse that it would cost too much, harm the economy. Real reason--the elite considers it unnecessary. Their econ theory defines away devastation of communities and environments as externalities, therefore unimportant. And as the fittest, the superior, the winners, they deserve their lavish lifestyles.
It looks more and more as if Kim Stanley Robinson's eco sci-fi 2020 book, //The Ministry of the Future,// is not fiction but an accurate prediction. Not only of what rising temps will do, but how monstrous yachts and private planes are, shall we say, discouraged.
They liv in their own rubber room of denial and avoidance.