This is How You Kill a Party

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12. I see a lead line like that and immediately think: "how can I help?"

I want that detestable party GONE. Consigned to the dustbin of history. Rendered so impotent and ineffective and sterile that it can no longer be self-sustaining, and basically ceases to exist. I want the Carthage treatment for those Neaderthal, racist, sexist, extremist, intolerant, willfully-ignorant bastards. Burn down their city and sow the ground with salt so that nothing will grow. I don't want them able to survive to fight another day. If they get their way, they'll frickin' DOOM THE PLANET with their climate denials and their anti-reason and logic and their "take it on faith alone" mentality that it really doesn't matter how much we fuck things up because "when the last tree is felled, Jesus will come back!" That's not an exaggeration from me. That's a quote from a guy named james watt - reagan's interior sercretary, testifying before Congress, straight-faced and open-eyed, about his planned reckless non-stewardship of our precious natural resources and open lands and national parks and the like.

Here AGAIN - something else vile and toxic to planetary survival that started BIGTIME during the reagan era. I used to shake with horror and fear and fury when I'd hear him speak - talking about how he wanted to open up our forests and wilderness areas and other protected lands - to "ALL the people!!!" It sounded soooooo good, and so harmless, and even noble and altruistic. But if you drilled down just a millimeter below the surface, you would quickly realize what he meant by "ALL the people:" those "poor pitiful put-upon unfortunates" who'd been locked out: developers, the logging industry, the oil industry, drillers and strip-miners, and a McDonalds and 7/11 at every tenth-of-a-mile marker. People who SHOULD be locked out of our forests and open plains and unsullied coastlines and mountains - because everything they touch turns to shit, pollution, litter, and barren, dry, desolate, poisoned eyesores.