Is it possible to be a democrat and not be an idiot?

Flopping Aces ^ | 06-01-17 | DrJohn

[Starman417]

Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Accord.  It was a good thing to do as all the burdens were to fall on the US:

1. Goodbye to ‘American Last.’ The Paris agreement was basically an attempt to halt climate change on the honor system. Its only legal requirements were for signatories to announce goals and report progress, with no international enforcement mechanism. As a result, it was likely that the United States and wealthy European nations would have adopted and implemented severe climate change rules while many of the world’s governments would avoid doing anything that would slow their own economies. The agreement basically made the U.S. economy and Europe’s strongest economies sacrificial lambs to the cause of climate change.
2. Industrial Carnage. The regulations necessary to implement the Paris agreement would have cost the U.S. industrial sector 1.1 million jobs, according to a study commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. These job losses would center in cement, iron and steel, and petroleum refining. Industrial output would decline sharply.
3. Hollowing Out Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The industrial carnage would have been concentrated on four states, according to the Chamber of Commerce study. Michigan’s GDP would shrink by 0.8 percent and employment would contract by 74,000 jobs. Missouri’s GDP would shrink by 1 percent. Ohio’s GDP would contract 1.2 percent. Pennsylvania’s GDP would decline by 1.8 percent and the state would lose 140,000 jobs.
4. Smashing Small Businesses, Helping Big Business. Big businesses in America strongly backed the Paris climate deal. In fact, the backers of the climate deal reads like a “who’s who” of big American businesses: Apple, General Electric, Intel, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, General Mills, Walmart, DuPont, Unilever, and Johnson & Johnson. These business giants can more easily cope with costly regulations than their smaller competitors and many would, in fact, find business opportunities from the changes required. But smaller businesses and traditional start-ups would likely be hurt by the increased costs of compliance and rising energy costs.
5. Making America Poorer Again.  A Heritage Foundation study found that the Paris agreement would have increased the electricity costs of an American family of four by between 13 percent and 20 percent annually. It forecast a loss of income of $20,000 by 2035. In other words, American families would be paying more while making less. 
6. Much Poorer. The overall effect of the agreement would have been to reduce U.S. GDP by over $2.5 trillion and eliminate 400,000 jobs by 2035, according to Heritage’s study. This would exacerbate problems with government funding and deficits, make Social Security solvency more challenging, and increase reliance on government’s spending to support households.

Additionally:

According to a study by The Heritage Foundation released in 2016, if the Obama Paris agreement were to be followed, “there would be 206,104 fewer manufacturing jobs between 2016 and 2040.” Heritage projects a loss of over $2.5 trillion in aggregate loss of gross domestic product by 2035.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute put out a similar report in May of 2017, which found that “the United States cannot comply with the Paris Agreement and pursue a pro-growth energy agenda.” The group concluded that the agreement’s “central goal is to make fossil fuels, America’s most plentiful and affordable ene

rgy source, more expensive across the board” and “would destroy U.S. manufacturing’s energy price edge.”

The accord is said to be toothless, but it does leave the US vulnerable. The US would suffer while China and India would plow on building up their consumption of oil and coal. The accord is in line with obama's desire to diminish the US' prominence and redistribute our wealth to the world.

Predictably, hysteria broke out among liberals.

Nicole Wallace called Trump "cynical and shallow."

John Kerry, who promised us Syria had given up all its chemical weapons, said Trump has "put America last."

Congressional democrats called it "cruel" and "indefensible."

Fareed Zakaria sputtered that Trump has "resigned as the leader of the free world."

Obama also whined about it.

But the Grand Prize goes to billionaire Tom Steyer, who made his fortune in oil and gas, called Donald Trump's action a "traitorous act of war." 

Aside from sucking at civics, Steyer is world class hypocrite.

[marktwain]

Perceptive reply.

The amount of “big lie” propaganda by the “progressives” in the media and education establishment has been astounding.

Sad to say, they believe much of their disinformation themselves. It is groupthink gone wild.

[propdog57]

watching all of these democrats do the song and dance of the damned.......

a hopeless crowd of complaining people who’s god is their belly.

All of them can do nothing else but speak from their rotten depraved reprobate hearts.

For out of the heart a mouth speaks.

Don’t be mad ...pity the fact that they are really that far gone from anything that is decent.

Evil does what ever it wants with no restraint.

there is no peace for the wicked.

You can never hide from a wicked heart......

[rlmorel]

Yes. I find it disconcerting. I have come to understand that many people will cling to a wrong belief, one that is provably wrong, rather than admit they were wrong and change their views, particularly if it is a fundamental view.

[rolling_stone]

some are not, some are morons others imbeciles...

[marktwain]

Yes. I find it disconcerting. I have come to understand that many people will cling to a wrong belief, one that is provably wrong, rather than admit they were wrong and change their views, particularly if it is a fundamental view.

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It seems to be a part of human nature. Those who are willing to examine basic beliefs on a regular basis are a small minority. It usually takes a life changing, dangerous event to cause someone to examine their basic beliefs.

[meyer]

In answer to the headline question, NO!

[SaraJohnson]

Agree with you. It’s not possible. You are known by the company you keep.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I can’t remember the last time I met a Democrat who wasn’t an asshole...it was back in the 80’s sometime.