Regarding the environment, that’s fine to think but it’s absolutely that kind of thinking that I find ridiculous from a logic standpoint. Here is the kicker, I agree that we need some radical change in protecting the environment. However, when I weigh that against realistic possibility via existing technology, realistic impact by the US vs the world, and the resulting impacts against the ability for people to create goods and services needed for survival, I prefer a natural evolution of the positive changes needed.Valid. But a lot of what you think is “nuts”, I honestly see as vital. Environmental policy is the area I’m thinking about here. We need radical changes, that will negatively effect business and the economy. It’s an area I thought Obama made good attempts in, and the biggest reason Hillary got my vote. Trump might be anti-establishment when it comes to Washington, but he’s entrenched in the business power structure that has its hands all over the Washington controls.
Lunacy? Sure, I understand balance. But when looking at things like our defense industry, our healthcare system, insurance, energy, or regulatory practices of the past.....I’m all for the “lunacy” you despise so much.
Where I would love to see change is in campaign finance. Lobby firms ran out of DC. Entrenched incumbents sent packing. We just differ on who we want to see in their seats. Trump? No. The devil you know beats......
I don’t think I’m some establishment crony influenced by business. I think I’m entrenched in logic. Trump I think is the same in this regard. Is it possible that you are the one entrenched in ideaology environmental dogma and abandoning logic and reason while demonizing those who disagree with your position? I’ve read your every thought on the environment and playing your string of logic out isn’t sustainable, it’s akin to throwing out the baby with the bath water.
I’m not sure why you think I’m in opposition to the rest of what you’re talking about. I’d love to scale back the defense industry. Let’s do it. How, considering the state of the world today? Obama I think we can all agree was an abysmal foreign policy President almost precisely because he tried pulling out and going the route you suggest. We saw how that played out. It caused a genocide in the Middle East. You ok with that approach and cost? Idealism vs logic, again.
You can argue we shouldn’t be where we are, but how? There was a war being fought against us for 20 years before most in the US ever acknowledged it, it doesn’t start with 9/11. Back it up, USS Cole, Embassy Bombings, WTC, Lockerbie and many other hijackings, Lebanon, hell, add in the wars with Israel, etc. it’s all connected. We have a war to fight and win, first. How do we scale back defense lest we sacrifice victory, or are you ok with losing and or compromising the tenets of what you hold true (compromise, love, compassion, etc.) for the more radical and uncompromising beliefs of Islam? Merely choosing to not fight doesn’t mean the war of ideaology stops.
Healthcare? I’ve said all along I think the only possible way to achieve universal healthcare is through single payer. How do you achieve that? You kill an entire industry and create a massive Govt agency. Killing industry for bigger govt........extrapolating this COA, we’ve seen this model fail and fail again. Ideology vs logic and reason.
Honestly, what I see you desiring are the principles of Socialism and effectively Marxism which inherently creates a massive state and ruling class of government aristocrats. It doesn’t work. It eliminates individuality, it eliminates the very culture and principles you cherish for the sake of the core. I don’t understand how someone as seemingly intelligent as you can observe history and think what you want is possible. If you could point to one time in the history of the world where what you advocate for is either sustainable or actually better for the masses then I’d be more open to the ideas. The reality is there will always be the less fortunate, and the best we can do is to ensure people have a chance for betterment and not artificially limited. That’s where we are now. Everyone in the country has an equal chance under the law, but it’s up to the individual to make the correct often extremely difficult choices and decisions.