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Great conversation you two are having. Would that the old hippies(current academia, et al) were paying attention. Others have said it and I believe it's more true than not, that the patients are running the asylum, or will be soon enough.

The thing I wonder about is, what ever happened to our will to resist. Collectively that is. I'm led to believe trying to rally conservatives together in a common cause is much like herding cats. Seems conservatives are easily divided because of our basic independent nature. Leftists on the other hand seem to line up behind the latest fad, or feel-good cause. Useful idiots for the most part, but how do we resist their almost monolithic front?

Seems conservatives are easily divided because of our basic independent nature. Leftists on the other hand seem to line up behind the latest fad, or feel-good cause. Useful idiots for the most part, but how do we resist their almost monolithic front?

Leftists are collectivists, joiners, etc. They identify with groups, and seem to treat everyone as part of one or more groups.

Conservatives are surly curmudgeons who prefer to be left alone. We treat people as individuals, and make herds of cats look organized.

Don’t despair, FGS. I’m convinced only a tiny minority of radical nutjobs really want to roll civilization back to the pre-industrial era when life truly was “nasty, brutish and short.” If the greenies ever manage to artificially restrict the oil supply to where the average person can’t buy the gas they need for everyday life, you’ll see a rebellion against them like you haven’t seen lately. Kinda like 1968 when they went too far with the “Great Society” welfare state or 1980 when they were surrendering to our enemies. Like the Gipper said, the truth is a stubborn thing.

The problem as I see it, with conservatives resisting, is that conservatives are generally people who simply want to go about their lives. As long as government leaves them alone, they’re content. They work hard and keep their noses to the grind stone.

What we have here is the old (hate to use it again) frog in the boiling pot syndrome. Government creep is so incremental yet peristant that they don’t seem to notice for the most part.

Today people are just busy busy busy. And that’s the way the government likes it.

IMO college kids and the under employed are those who have a lot of time to participate in driving the environmental whack-job nonsense. Their professors and those who fancy themselves “the protectors” are also a major driving force. There’s a lot of young and middle-aged people who were looking for a cause out of college, and they were either active in college or came into contact with someone who was.

It’s amazing to me how many conservatives actually think there is major cause for concern regarding the environment though. It’s sortof like turning your back on Bambie. You know it’s only make believe, but boy wouldn’t it be bad IF it were real. Can’t have that...