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Democracy Grief Is Real: Seeing what Trump is doing to America, many find it hard to fight off despair.
NY Times ^ | 12/13/19 | Michelle Goldberg

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 right’s willful denial. The young activist Greta Thunberg, Time magazine’s 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 I’m 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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: envirowhackos; tds
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1 posted on 12/17/2019 10:42:24 AM PST by Maceman
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May I suggest killing yourself?


2 posted on 12/17/2019 10:43:16 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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3 posted on 12/17/2019 10:43:35 AM PST by Maceman (Trump Trumps Hate!!!)
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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.


4 posted on 12/17/2019 10:44:09 AM PST by StoneRainbow68
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To: Maceman

I guess making America energy independent and an exporter of oil is an impeachable offense.


5 posted on 12/17/2019 10:44:58 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Maceman

Yes, making America Great Again is a real Bitch !


6 posted on 12/17/2019 10:45:13 AM PST by spincaster (ust)
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To: Maceman

The first problem is that of turning the USA into a democracy, where everybody thinks that they should be able to vote themselves ‘stuff.’


7 posted on 12/17/2019 10:46:02 AM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity (A law means nothing if it isnÂ’t followed.)
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To: Maceman

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!


8 posted on 12/17/2019 10:46:06 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: dfwgator

I had a slightly more profane reaction in mind.


9 posted on 12/17/2019 10:46:27 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: Maceman

“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.


10 posted on 12/17/2019 10:46:33 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Maceman

Michele Goldberg should go see a Movie and have a happy life.


11 posted on 12/17/2019 10:46:38 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: Maceman

Poor Little Dems! Your TDS tears provide an endless source of overly sweet nectar for birds, rodents and flying insects.


12 posted on 12/17/2019 10:46:46 AM PST by lee martell
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To: dfwgator

We are a Constitutional Republic retard.


13 posted on 12/17/2019 10:46:49 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: Maceman

What’s the old commercial with the guy living under a rock. . . . these people are brain-dead.


14 posted on 12/17/2019 10:46:50 AM PST by RatRipper
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To: Maceman
If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before?

That's a big "IF".

15 posted on 12/17/2019 10:46:51 AM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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“illiberal oligarchy that would await my children”

Do us all a favor and your unborn a favor and don’t have any.


16 posted on 12/17/2019 10:47:02 AM PST by blue-duncan
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“illiberal oligarchy that would await my children”

Do us all a favor and your unborn a favor and don’t have any.


17 posted on 12/17/2019 10:47:17 AM PST by blue-duncan
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
I had a slightly more profane reaction in mind.

Well I was trying to be nice.

18 posted on 12/17/2019 10:47:21 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Maceman

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.


19 posted on 12/17/2019 10:47:41 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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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.


20 posted on 12/17/2019 10:48:12 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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