The tactic of the Right is to accuse their accusers of the crime they ( the Right) are in fact committing. The GOP candidates last night are all in the pocket of Capital. They pose as defenders of the little guy when they don’t give a damn about him/her. They only care about their payoff from the rich.
The responses last night reminded me of the points made in this powerful piece by Chris Hedges, The Age of Social Murder: "The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial."
Oh...don't you know? There is NO climate changed caused by humans. It's regular cyclical global changes....
OMG! I'm NOT serious, but how the hell do you convince people who DO say that? As I've said in past comments for other of Mr. Reich's posts, people have a natural impulse to never admit they're wrong no matter how many facts are presented to them.
I could not watch the debate or the pre-recorded Trump interview because all they do is lie and the sheep listen and follow along. If we try to convince them with facts, they all say crap like, 'Well the democrats do the same thing and lie.'
How do we combat this? Where is the strong leadership in the Democratic Party to get in public and regularly show a one party stand on these issues and support our current administration, instead of bickering?
Today's field of Republican Presidential candidates ALL deny scientific reality AND hold positions that are firmly opposed by 50+% of the American people.
The most difficult challenge we face is getting voters to realize that the GOP is not only wrong about almost everything, but are downright dangerous.
If we don’t do more to aggressively address climate change the entire planet will ultimately become uninhabitable. These candidates do not care. All they care about is filling their pockets with money from fossil fuel industries.
I listened to the historic musical production of "We Are the World" yesterday and it hit me: the YOUNG people of this world are the most climate-concerned and in many ways most active and vocal about the threats they see ahead; this great tune needs a global, on-line and on-Earth re-birth for a worldwide cry to make this The World's First Concern. Our young people could be our only hope.
Every day I wake up hoping for better, but the GOP has recreated itself as a tower of selfish ignorance and disinformation. No foreign forces could ever conspire to inflict the level of disruption and cultural division that they do. I’m astounded at how readily they abandon their own as well. In that regard, almost everyone has become cordwood for their fires. The only things we can be assured of is that they are committed to working against anything that will better Americans of all walks, and the world at large. God help us.
Thank you, Prof. Reich for watching the debate for me. I couldn't bear it! The eight were sure to act like the child-men and child-woman they are and your observation of their response to a question about global warming, the most significant issue of our time proves I was right to do other things instead of taxing my brain with the incomprehensible, the unnecessary, the ridiculous. I did hear samples from the "debate" on MSNBC's wrap-up at 11:00 last night, though and the pieces I heard were truly disturbing. OK, DeSantis just by himself is disturbing, an unapologetic fascist who wants to be president. (OK, Pence is such a whining religious nut who couldn't even defend himself against a man who wanted him dead.) I hope Harvard and Yale are both embarrassed they graduated someone so lacking in humanity as DeSantis. He claims they warped him (OK, not those words) but I doubt it. I suspect they didn't help him, though. Again thanks for reporting on this Republican inability to face reality and to deliberately remain ignorant and childishly stubborn about it.
And too many people listen to that false narrative because it’s easier for them to deny than accept we need to make radical changes in order to have a livable planet. These politicians are desperately trying to create enemies so that they have a political angle, but the irony is that they themselves are the enemies at the gates. It’s a tried and true authoritarian tactic to gaslight us all.
It’s party over people, country and environment. Pathetic that we are where we are given how far education has supposedly come. The punch line is that Vivek says emphatically that “God is real”. I’ll wait for the proof on that one.
Ramaswamy was right about one thing: The others are bought and paid for. But he is no better. He is clearly not serious about governing, just spewing attention-grabbing inflammatory rhetoric.
And their climate change "solution?" Order China and India to reduce their carbon emissions, while our country can emit all the carbon we want. These people might want to be president, but they plainly do not want to do the difficult job of president.
Let's me real about DeSantis. He's a fascist and has made Florida a terrible state to live in, to school children, and because of his policies during the pandemic, Florida had one of the highest death rates in the country. So much for forcing kids to go back to school and scolding them for wearing masks! But this guy has no business even being considered for the presidency. H really is a fascist, fires people (state attorneys) who were ELECTED to office and is a despot. Let's be real. And if you want to really get into it----he's doing some illegal stuff raising money for his campaign and got the state to pass a law that they cannot report his flights and trips to other states for his campaign. He is using STATE money for that travel!!!! Terri Quint
The tactic of the Right is to accuse their accusers of the crime they ( the Right) are in fact committing. The GOP candidates last night are all in the pocket of Capital. They pose as defenders of the little guy when they don’t give a damn about him/her. They only care about their payoff from the rich.
And...GOP = Governmental Oligarchical Politicians
The responses last night reminded me of the points made in this powerful piece by Chris Hedges, The Age of Social Murder: "The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial."
https://scheerpost.com/2021/03/02/hedges-the-age-of-social-murder/
Oh...don't you know? There is NO climate changed caused by humans. It's regular cyclical global changes....
OMG! I'm NOT serious, but how the hell do you convince people who DO say that? As I've said in past comments for other of Mr. Reich's posts, people have a natural impulse to never admit they're wrong no matter how many facts are presented to them.
I could not watch the debate or the pre-recorded Trump interview because all they do is lie and the sheep listen and follow along. If we try to convince them with facts, they all say crap like, 'Well the democrats do the same thing and lie.'
How do we combat this? Where is the strong leadership in the Democratic Party to get in public and regularly show a one party stand on these issues and support our current administration, instead of bickering?
Today's field of Republican Presidential candidates ALL deny scientific reality AND hold positions that are firmly opposed by 50+% of the American people.
I can tell you who didn't win the GOP nomination last night, Democracy.
ARRRRRRG! Sorry Docter Reich. I had to get that my chest. Frankly, I am embarrassed as an American, that these ass-clowns represent us?
Or want to be President?
When did we all fall into The Twilight Zone? Thank you Professor, for keeping the battle moving forward and may God bless you!
The most difficult challenge we face is getting voters to realize that the GOP is not only wrong about almost everything, but are downright dangerous.
If we don’t do more to aggressively address climate change the entire planet will ultimately become uninhabitable. These candidates do not care. All they care about is filling their pockets with money from fossil fuel industries.
I listened to the historic musical production of "We Are the World" yesterday and it hit me: the YOUNG people of this world are the most climate-concerned and in many ways most active and vocal about the threats they see ahead; this great tune needs a global, on-line and on-Earth re-birth for a worldwide cry to make this The World's First Concern. Our young people could be our only hope.
Every day I wake up hoping for better, but the GOP has recreated itself as a tower of selfish ignorance and disinformation. No foreign forces could ever conspire to inflict the level of disruption and cultural division that they do. I’m astounded at how readily they abandon their own as well. In that regard, almost everyone has become cordwood for their fires. The only things we can be assured of is that they are committed to working against anything that will better Americans of all walks, and the world at large. God help us.
Thank you, Prof. Reich for watching the debate for me. I couldn't bear it! The eight were sure to act like the child-men and child-woman they are and your observation of their response to a question about global warming, the most significant issue of our time proves I was right to do other things instead of taxing my brain with the incomprehensible, the unnecessary, the ridiculous. I did hear samples from the "debate" on MSNBC's wrap-up at 11:00 last night, though and the pieces I heard were truly disturbing. OK, DeSantis just by himself is disturbing, an unapologetic fascist who wants to be president. (OK, Pence is such a whining religious nut who couldn't even defend himself against a man who wanted him dead.) I hope Harvard and Yale are both embarrassed they graduated someone so lacking in humanity as DeSantis. He claims they warped him (OK, not those words) but I doubt it. I suspect they didn't help him, though. Again thanks for reporting on this Republican inability to face reality and to deliberately remain ignorant and childishly stubborn about it.
And too many people listen to that false narrative because it’s easier for them to deny than accept we need to make radical changes in order to have a livable planet. These politicians are desperately trying to create enemies so that they have a political angle, but the irony is that they themselves are the enemies at the gates. It’s a tried and true authoritarian tactic to gaslight us all.
It’s party over people, country and environment. Pathetic that we are where we are given how far education has supposedly come. The punch line is that Vivek says emphatically that “God is real”. I’ll wait for the proof on that one.
Ramaswamy was right about one thing: The others are bought and paid for. But he is no better. He is clearly not serious about governing, just spewing attention-grabbing inflammatory rhetoric.
And their climate change "solution?" Order China and India to reduce their carbon emissions, while our country can emit all the carbon we want. These people might want to be president, but they plainly do not want to do the difficult job of president.
Let's me real about DeSantis. He's a fascist and has made Florida a terrible state to live in, to school children, and because of his policies during the pandemic, Florida had one of the highest death rates in the country. So much for forcing kids to go back to school and scolding them for wearing masks! But this guy has no business even being considered for the presidency. H really is a fascist, fires people (state attorneys) who were ELECTED to office and is a despot. Let's be real. And if you want to really get into it----he's doing some illegal stuff raising money for his campaign and got the state to pass a law that they cannot report his flights and trips to other states for his campaign. He is using STATE money for that travel!!!! Terri Quint
Republicans lack education or just No brai