watching pbs on National Parks and seeing how the party of NO

[2Design]

was very active then too in trying to not have national parks and instead commercialism of dams, clear cutting, and any way possible of ruining the lands - they really fought everything and what helped saved it is people strongly behind the a parks and some politicians and some very rich people willing to help

It is funny some of the people who are the rv'ers of today are very much from the other side yet they stay in the parks and utilize these parks and walmart parking lots as their homes

It is fascinating how much good people did get through back then


and it is terrifying how much the same party wants to destroy national and state parks, libraries and schools

[liberal N proud]

1. The current views of the GOP are nothing new

Which makes it that much more astounding the voters keep buying their bullshit.

[2Design]

2. I think it takes wisdom to really see - once I was just as ignorant

and unaware - now as I look back I see how I was not part of the solution

[2Design]

3. Rockefeller bought a lot of the land for several national parks

to stop the logging and clear cutting and saving the lands for everyone

[2Design]

4. Theodore Roosevelt first president to use federal funds to buy

land for National Park and used it to fill the gap for Great Smokey Mountain National Park during the depression - Rockefeller had already given 5 million

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Yep. Republicans would bulldoze Mount Rushmore if they thought there was coal there.

[cilla4progress]

6. Exactly!

Love the series...we've been "netflixing" it. I think they are subtle, but not too, in making this point!

[2Design]

7. this fighting between parties for the good of the people versus the corps has

been happening a very long time

this was before income tax too
they were against anything good for the people back in the early 1900's just as they are now

these peoples strips are not going to change even if they sit next to each other
it is delusional