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christiefan915 (11-12-2019), Guno צְבִי (11-12-2019), ThatOwlWoman (11-12-2019), Trumpet (11-12-2019)
*sigh* True. Dark, dark days for this country.
If the economy is as great as the Toadstool & Sycophants claim, what's the rush then to roll back environmental protections? Seems if it's so great now, it got that way regardless of so-called "business-stifling regulations," eh?
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Althea (11-12-2019), Guno צְבִי (11-12-2019), signalmankenneth (11-12-2019), Trumpet (11-12-2019)
I suspect the vast majority of rightys believe ln science. The fact is the leaders of the right find profit in fighting environmental laws. They have decided that more profits in their lifetimes trumps keeping the future cleaner for those who follow. The Kochs and others on top are trading more profit now for a dirtier future.
The elite rightys are not stupid. They are like Trump. They look no farther than what benefits themselves now.
Cypress (11-12-2019), ThatOwlWoman (11-12-2019), Trumpet (11-12-2019)
Truth ^
The leaders of our first nation bands here are supposed to follow the "seven generations" rule. All decisions made are to be weighed with the future in mind -- "How will what we do today affect us seven generations down the road?" We would all do well to adopt that thinking ourselves. I was born in a time when no one really cared much about pollution and how it might affect health. Fortunately my elders realized that my generation (their children) and those after would suffer if we didn't clean up our nest. So they passed the legislation that created the EPA. As a result I -- and every other American -- has been able to breathe relatively clean air, and drink clean safe water. (Your results may vary in Flint.)
Unless we rid ourselves of 1) anti-education/anti-science morons, and 2) extreme partisanship, those bad old days will be coming back.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
I am reasonably confident that the damage Trump is doing to the environment is reversible.
Once Trump loses the senate and the White House for the Republican Party, a Democratic administration has a lot influence simply through executive action, executive orders, and regulation through the executive agencies. Trump's executive orders can be tossed out the window. The good news is that Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act are so popular with Americans, that even legal challenges purporting to undermine their legal authority are destined to be doomed. The danger is when Republicans try to weaken these laws, but to some extent that can be mitigated by having the Executive agencies under the control of sentient human beings, aka Democrats.
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ThatOwlWoman (11-12-2019)
the generation that came of age in the 1950s were raised in a time in history when the Corporations and the CEOs pitched in on the war effort
they made profit sacrifices to help save the nation
NATION over corporation
they were raised thinking of these entities as patriotic and moral
they are not
and they refuse to realize what these people are now
ThatOwlWoman (11-12-2019)
I maintain that the reasonably well educated Trump boot-lickers are fully aware at a visceral level that emitting billions of tons of heat trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, year after year, decade after decade, is a really bad idea and certainly not sustainable.
The problem is, they are weak people with fragile egos who spent two decades getting themselves emotionally invested in climate denial; they simply cannot admit to obscure message board posters they have never met, that they were wrong.
The Denial Cabal also has an average age of about eighty four, so being self-centered and self-absorbed conservatives, they do not really give that much of a rat's ass about what will happen to American generations 50 years from now. Why should elderly Deniers, bound soon for the grave, spend their money to help people half a century from now?
As for the profit motive, addressing climate denial in any realistic sense means asking our Corporate Overlords to leave trillions of barrels of undeveloped petroleum in the ground, and never burn it. That is asking these oligarchs to simply walk away from trillions of dollars in profit. I really can't think of any time in human history were environmental sustainability took precedence over trillions of bucks in profit. But I am ever hopeful this might be the one case it actually transpires, because climate change has the reasonable potential to be an existential threat to the earth's ecology, agriculture, and the global economy.
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“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
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Guno צְבִי (11-12-2019)
They lumped all Jewish together, which really skews the data. The ultra religious (hasidic) Jews stop studying the three Rs after grammar school, and opt for studying Torah.
As such, there are tens of thousands of illiterate Jews that are lumped in with educated Jews.
We have a large contingent here in the summer. I tried to explain what an apostrophe is to one of them this summer. I might as well speak Mandarin to them.
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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ThatOwlWoman (11-12-2019)
My informed guess is that the hasidic tradition is a exceedingly small portion of American Judaism.
Most religions have various sects and splinter groups. This poll obviously cannot account for all the splinter groups, and has to resort to some form of lumping together.
The poll rings true to me, at least based on life experience -- American Jews, to me, seem to generally hold books, literature, higher education in the utmost esteem.
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