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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNoam Chomsky: 'The Republican Party Has Become the Most Dangerous Organization in World History'
(and they're now in control of EVERYTHING)On Nov. 8, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) delivered a report at the international conference on climate change in Morocco (COP22) which was called in order to carry forward the Paris agreement of COP21. The WMO reported that the past five years were the hottest on record. It reported rising sea levels, soon to increase as a result of the unexpectedly rapid melting of polar ice, most ominously the huge Antarctic glaciers. Already, Arctic sea ice over the past five years is 28 percent below the average of the previous 29 years, not only raising sea levels, but also reducing the cooling effect of polar ice reflection of solar rays, thereby accelerating the grim effects of global warming. The WMO reported further that temperatures are approaching dangerously close to the goal established by COP21, along with other dire reports and forecasts.
Another event took place on Nov. 8, which also may turn out to be of unusual historical significance for reasons that, once again, were barely noted.
On Nov. 8, the most powerful country in world history, which will set its stamp on what comes next, had an election. The outcome placed total control of the governmentexecutive, Congress, the Supreme Courtin the hands of the Republican Party, which has become the most dangerous organization in world history.
Apart from the last phrase, all of this is uncontroversial. The last phrase may seem outlandish, even outrageous. But is it? The facts suggest otherwise. The party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of organized human life. There is no historical precedent for such a stand.
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It is hard to find words to capture the fact that humans are facing the most important question in their historywhether organized human life will survive in anything like the form we knowand are answering it by accelerating the race to disaster.
http://www.ecowatch.com/noam-chomsky-trump-2093271018.html
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)against USA and against Dems for years. They have finally reached the pinnacle of their desire to kill the USA.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Lord help us
B C Butler
(39 posts)There is nothing left to do. The wrecking balls are in place. No one can hear us crying out from this underground site. I am new to DU. I am happy to be here but I fear that the desperate fight we are in requires more than sharing our concerns here. I am afraid that a revolution is the only way to save our country and planet. I don't think we can wait for Trump to set the wrecking balls swinging. Is it safe to say what I just wwrote?
niyad
(113,303 posts)lots of fighting--but lots of caring and sharing and loving by some of the most amazing people I have ever encountered. this place has helped retain what little is left of my sanity--has been here for many of us in very dark hours.
one other place you might want to check out--google "closer keith olbermann" and click on the gq link and listen to his pieces, especially the second season "resistance".
and many other sources are linked in various posts on any given day.
Thanks. I am glad that I found you.
Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)Nazis and the theocratic kind.
Welcome to DU. Cheers.
B C Butler
(39 posts)Thanks. I am happy to be here.
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)''There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Hamlet (1.5.167-8)
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Yep. That's the Republican party and that's the Trumpanzee.
Akamai
(1,779 posts)in this effing election (e.g., Susan Sarandon) who did not think what the outcomes could be. Susan turned to voting for third party candidates and others following her were almost certainly affected by her views.
The old saying -- "The perfect is the enemy of the good!" -- worked here.
Frankly, Hillary was pretty damned good -- far, far better then anyone else I know in the finals. I supported Bernie early but then I sure as hell supported Hillary, with my money, with my enthusiasm.
My own two thoughts on this.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)It is not the Republican Party per se, it is the Plutocrats that put them in power and still call the shots. To not go after them and put all the blame on their lackeys insulates them and allows them to continue unabated.
The true enemy of America and the world are these same Plutocrats who's greed and thirst for power knows no bounds. Anyone, Republican or Democrat who takes their campaign money, Super PAC money, dark money, and/or goes through the revolving door, is our enemy as well, but it doesn't stop with them. They are mere tools, in every sense of the word, and can be replaced.
We must change the rules that allow their control over OUR government! To do that we must all join in this fight. LGBT, BLM, environmentalist, red necks (there are some on our side), Native American, white people, women's rights activist, immigrants,... all of us! We can continue these individual fights but join in the fight to attack the root problem destroying our Democracy, the money in politics. Most of our other battles will resolve once we have a fair, Democratic government, made up of representatives who represent the people again and not the Donors!
geretogo
(1,281 posts)GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)However, I've been convinced for a decade that the human situation on the planet is unsalvageable, no matter how much electing we do.
IMO the degree of overshoot in population and consumption, and the global cultural forces that work to extend that overshoot even further, are not controllable by party politics. A Democratic government in the USA would not have "raced as rapidly as possible to the destruction of organized human life", they would have walked toward it instead. Though the intentions would have been different, the destination would have been the same.