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. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
They’re brainless parrots. Squawking what they’ve heard without understanding what they squawk.
Suicide is their only reasonable option. I’d drive any of them to a bridge if they need transportation.
TDS, it’s a mental disorder.
Climate scientist - person selling his soul for government grants and accolades from leftists.
How the Help did they think we felt for the 8 years of Obama ?
Is the Hemlock Society still around? I’m just sayin’
You know the airlines are selling tickets to all sorts of places. Just in case these people don’t feel like jumping the line to Hell.
Yes. I dealt with this for 8 years between 2008 and 2016.
I dealt with it. Life is hard. It’s harder if you’re stupid.
Oh, boo hoo. Booty hooty hoo. Are these people all brain dead? We survived 8 long years of Barack Obama, all without rioting in the streets, or demanding everyone think, act, and speak like us, OR ELSE! Of course, they think he walked on water, and I’m sure they couldn’t conceive of anybody being against him. These people are NUTS. Just imagine what they’ll do when Trump wins re-election! Talk about riots! Pray without ceasing. Pray for our country and our President every day! Only God can fix a mess like this!
Well, then, "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
Hi.
Winter is the time for snowflakes.
And TDS.
5.56mm
OOPS. . .I forgot to include the MEDIA along with the democrats!
Aren’t they the same thing?
This article warms my heart.
Now they know how I felt with the Kenyan interloper.
The salt is delicious.
November cannot come too soon.
Michelle in need a real man and a good orgasm. Her resume reads like wasted 150k in student loans..”Blogger, former writer for the Nation magazine....”. You know a walking east coast New York Jewess cliche
I prefer to call it T.U.R.D. -— Trump Unhinged Reaction Disorder.
Paranoid personality disorder?
Seriously, they could rescue democracy by finding a way to cancel elections, right? Elections have been proven to be the biggest obstacle to the Democrats' ideal of democracy.
Partisan Media Shills roundup:
I thought about that as I hit the post button.
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