2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yeah, in connection with Yavin4's thread on Hillary Hate [View all]Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)The time for radical change is now. And it is our last chance. The reality is that this country is hurtling toward the abyss at 60 mph with a hundred feet to go. We have a choice of two drivers:
One will gently apply the brakes, and drive us over the edge at a more restrained 45 mph.
The other will jam on the brakes, and slam the transmission into reverse.
The rest of the country will pick between one of these two, and a driver who will stomp the accelerator, hit the nitrous booster and light the JATO rockets.
Of these three choices, only one driver has any chance of keeping the country alive. The other two mean certain death.
Think I am exaggerating?
Well the "live or die" issue of our time is not campaign finance reform, not marriage equality, gun control, abortion rights or income inequality.
It is global warming.
After decades of warning people that we were approaching the point of no return, we have now either reached it, or passed it. Ahead lies mass extinction, famine, pestilence, and war on a cataclysmic scale.
Our choice of candidates, as "Democrats/Liberals/Progressives" is simple:
The person who will take radical measures to cut carbon emissions and build a green energy infrastructure, or the person who will compromise and only implement realistic plans with consensus "buy in" from the relevant stake holders.
The first person will probably fail, but might, just might succeed.
The second person will fail, PERIOD.
And that, my friends, is what is on the line. After the primary we will either choose between two candidates who will both drive us into abyss, or one who will drive into the abyss with maniacal glee and one who will do his damndest to stop on the edge.
I refuse to be blamed if the "majority" wrong.