2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Email from Bernie: This will anger you... [View all]kaleckim
(651 posts)So, logically then you vote against the candidate trying to actively move popular opinion and support the one going with the flow then. When we are approaching ecological collapse, which we are, the best idea is to just accept the situation and be "pragmatic" while the world goes to hell. What exactly do you and the Democratic Party stand for, if you can't find it in you to help us to avoid ecological collapse? It is almost like you want to prove that you are no longer a vehicle of progressive change, and that your task is to essentially manage our economic and ecological decline.
By the way, there is no need to brush off the idea that we are approaching ecological collapse. Take a look at the Stockholm Resilience Center's planetary boundaries, the recent IPCC reports, or reports on ocean acidification, the global species extinction rate, the ocean possibly being free of fish by mid-century, among many other things. You saying that doesn't equal, or far surpass, the Great Depression has nothing to do with objective reality.