Posted on 12/17/2019 10:42:24 AM PST by Maceman
The despair felt by climate scientists and environmentalists watching helplessly as something precious and irreplaceable is destroyed is sometimes described as climate grief. Those who pay close attention to the ecological calamity that civilization is inflicting upon itself frequently describe feelings of rage, anxiety and bottomless loss, all of which are amplified by the rights willful denial. The young activist Greta Thunberg, Time magazines 2019 Person of the Year, has described falling into a deep depression after grasping the ramifications of climate change and the utter refusal of people in power to rise to the occasion: If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before?
Lately, I think Im experiencing democracy grief. For anyone who was, like me, born after the civil rights movement finally made democracy in America real, liberal democracy has always been part of the climate, as easy to take for granted as clean air or the changing of the seasons. When I contemplate the sort of illiberal oligarchy that would await my children should Donald Trump win another term, the scale of the loss feels so vast that I can barely process it. . . .
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May I suggest killing yourself?
I find it endlessly hilarious that the real Trump and the insane, evil Trump that leftists concoct in their skulls simply look nothing like each other. It’s really weird and pathological.
I guess making America energy independent and an exporter of oil is an impeachable offense.
Yes, making America Great Again is a real Bitch !
The first problem is that of turning the USA into a democracy, where everybody thinks that they should be able to vote themselves ‘stuff.’
When I contemplate the sort of illiberal oligarchy that would await my children should Donald Trump win another term, the scale of the loss feels so vast that I can barely process it. . .
Get some! Eat it!
I had a slightly more profane reaction in mind.
“What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the women.”
Genghis Khan
*No, Conan didn’t say it first.
Michele Goldberg should go see a Movie and have a happy life.
Poor Little Dems! Your TDS tears provide an endless source of overly sweet nectar for birds, rodents and flying insects.
We are a Constitutional Republic retard.
What’s the old commercial with the guy living under a rock. . . . these people are brain-dead.
That's a big "IF".
“illiberal oligarchy that would await my children”
Do us all a favor and your unborn a favor and don’t have any.
“illiberal oligarchy that would await my children”
Do us all a favor and your unborn a favor and don’t have any.
Well I was trying to be nice.
And yet, none of these idiots can articulate what is “bringing down Democracy”...never mind the fact, we’re supposed to have a Constitutional Representative Republic.
Good grief!
I presume she got to VOTE in the last election.
The party that I presume she voted for actually WON the House.
As much as they howl and whine about his tweets Trump has imprisoned exactly ZERO journalists.
I fail to see the problem here. He is NOT killing democracy.
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