2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Many may still be sleeping, but the awakening has begun! [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Wise and true words, in fact the entire reply is well said. It is much easier to vote than have to fight physically.
I am also fond of the Hunter S. Thompson quote in your sig line.
It is true that we need a New Deal right now, because time for anything but sane government is running out, it must also take much more seriously new and far more important problems as well as the one's FDR solved that must solved again. New extremely important problems than we had at the time of FDR's political revolution, that of a planet that will soon start over again with whatever species survives our impending self imposed pending extinction.
Half measures and making deals with fossil fuel companies and those that pollute the earth in other ways will simply not save us from extinction.
There are some that believe that even if we take very strong measures today (much , much, stronger measures than any have yet placed on the table) it may already be too late to matter, only stay the extinction a while longer, I prefer to be an optimist on this point myself however.
Yet we must do what we can, and part of it involves having a decent society of well cared for people involved in a newly uncorrupted government for us to have any chance at all.