Emergencies and Polarization
Nov. 14th, 2021 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineA friend pointed out this article in The Daily Beast tonight.
Long story short, it's about concerns about political polarisation as an addictive force getting in the way of properly dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Climate Emergency.
I say that addiction is being actively encouraged and enforced by elements of the new fascist international in order to entrench their preferred people in power in dozens of nations across the planet. Solving either crisis properly means throwing away their current "advantages" against human civilization.
Anyway, it may be that the sabotage-by-addiction hasn't fully taken hold, not in the degree intended yet. Pointing to evidence of that...here's the Yale map the article talks about:
https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/
And I have a problem with this assertion by Thor Benson: "But those initiatives won’t go anywhere if the next president simply reverses them like the previous one did—and they will have no qualms with doing so if half the country gives their consent."
Half the country? (In this case, the United States.)
All the Wrong People need is 25-30 % of their country to actively go along and to keep at least half the total population from showing up for any side(s). That much, I'd already seen during the Stephen Harper years here in Canada. And the Republicans seem all too keen to keep taking advice from Harper in his current International Democrat Union chairmanship role.
(I do wonder what he really thinks of Trump: useful idiot, or someone more dangerous than planned?)
Long story short, it's about concerns about political polarisation as an addictive force getting in the way of properly dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Climate Emergency.
I say that addiction is being actively encouraged and enforced by elements of the new fascist international in order to entrench their preferred people in power in dozens of nations across the planet. Solving either crisis properly means throwing away their current "advantages" against human civilization.
Anyway, it may be that the sabotage-by-addiction hasn't fully taken hold, not in the degree intended yet. Pointing to evidence of that...here's the Yale map the article talks about:
https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/
And I have a problem with this assertion by Thor Benson: "But those initiatives won’t go anywhere if the next president simply reverses them like the previous one did—and they will have no qualms with doing so if half the country gives their consent."
Half the country? (In this case, the United States.)
All the Wrong People need is 25-30 % of their country to actively go along and to keep at least half the total population from showing up for any side(s). That much, I'd already seen during the Stephen Harper years here in Canada. And the Republicans seem all too keen to keep taking advice from Harper in his current International Democrat Union chairmanship role.
(I do wonder what he really thinks of Trump: useful idiot, or someone more dangerous than planned?)
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Date: 2021-11-15 10:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-11-15 11:26 am (UTC)Apparently people to speak loosely still think Charlie Chaplin was Jewish. They haven't watched their Harold Lloyd, nor read Tolkien's scathing rebuke of the German publisher.
Watched Dunkirk, recently.
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Date: 2021-11-15 12:20 pm (UTC)And it's not the same as 25-30% being able to swing it in a good direction, because the imbalance of power is very real.