tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692282252844489453.post292097974222097304..comments2024-03-01T18:58:48.605-08:00Comments on What'sUpWithThatWatts, et al.: Monbiot Considers The Problem With Freedomcitizenschallengehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559990934735912814noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692282252844489453.post-39080535719157418142017-06-03T06:32:49.752-07:002017-06-03T06:32:49.752-07:00Whatever happened to the proud children of the int...Whatever happened to the proud children of the intellectual enlightenment, <br />why have you collectively allowed the sort of dark ages drivel (like my pal up their shared) to flourish?<br /><br />:- (citizenschallengehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04559990934735912814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692282252844489453.post-75016993841001272112017-06-03T06:31:12.510-07:002017-06-03T06:31:12.510-07:00Anonymous on 6/1/17
Where should I start with so...Anonymous on 6/1/17<br /><br />Where should I start with something like that?<br /><br />You sound like you want to blame everything on the government without giving any thought to all the complexities or other factors besides the government leading to our problems.<br /><br />A healthy Democracy demands an informed and engaged public - instead we’ve devolved this sort of angry shallow barroom talk.<br /><br />What about your acceptance of misinformation, lies, and slander rather than rational review and constructive discussion of the issues at hand?<br /><br />You sound like you, just like that Trump clown, are more into scapegoating than in understanding causes and problems.<br /><br />You make Trump out to be a hero when a sober review reveals the man’s an utter simpleton, he knows self-aggrandizement, bullying and blaming all his perceive problems on others - never ever reflecting on his own faults. <br />An amoral man who will tell anyone anything they want to hear to further his own interest. <br /><br />What about the problems caused by corporates obsessive focus on maximizing profits at the expense of all other considerations? Why turn a blind eye to that?<br /><br />What about self-interested corporations becoming bigger than god and governments? Why aren’t you fearful of public manipulation machine the Koch’s have put together?<br /><br />Why can’t you acknowledge our country as become crowded country and how depleted the biosphere (that nature thing that provides our life support system, don’t you know. Do you know? Do you ever think about it?)<br /><br />Instead you want to wrap yourself in some make-believe world that never was and never can be in a world where so much that is of critical importance is dismissed with stupid disregard and ridicule such as that simplistic nonsense you wrote up there.<br /><br />So sad, you are among those that make plain how tragically hopeless our future will be.<br /><br />~~~~~~~<br />Oh as for Terror your terror delusion - it is idiotic to think you can defeat Terror by inflicting more Terror on innocent civilians. <br />We ourselves created the Taliban and ISIS you fool, and now this Trump and CO. be will be sowing the seeds for even more hideous blowback - but flag waver fearful, unthinking, angry people are so, so easy to manipulate.<br /><br />A Democracy demands and informed and engaged citizenry and we are failing that big time. <br /><br />citizenschallengehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04559990934735912814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692282252844489453.post-29938379303492845532017-06-01T13:33:57.292-07:002017-06-01T13:33:57.292-07:00I voted for Trump because government meddling in t...I voted for Trump because government meddling in the lives of Americans is out of control. I voted for Trump because I want more freedom - not just for billionaires, but for poor people like myself. Government is destroying millions of lives - just the welfare programs and the rot they create among certain segments of the population are a huge cost to America.<br />The cost of permits to build a house cost in the ballpark of $40,000 for a single family home here where I live in the Pacific NW. That does not count the costs embedded in building code requirements and no, they are not all useful requirements.<br />Government meddling has destroyed health care in the USA by making it unaffordable.<br />Government threatens the lives of millions of citizens by taking our rights to self defense away - a right given to us by our creator and confirmed in the 2nd Amendment.<br />.<br />There is a place for government regulation, but our government is now a destructive monster, choking our ability to start and run businesses, and taxing us to death with an army of many millions of bureaucrats to enforce all the regulations which are so numerous that at any particular time you are most likely violating some of them.<br />.<br />This is one reason why Trump was elected. Other reasons are immigration and terrorism - and those reasons are also why Brexit happened. The people have had enough - we spoke and are starting to wake up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com