Reply #49: Gore AND Kuchinich would actually be ideal from the POV of the earth,

[Raksha]

and everyone who truly cares about earth's future, but I don't think it's going to happen. I'll settle for Gore and whoever the party thinks is "electable."

That's not what I want to write about, though.

And while my utmost preference would be for Gore or Kucinich (both of whom know very well what's coming and know what needs to be done), it's vital that the person to lead into the new era is a Democrat. Because even if they're not fully aware right now as to what we're facing, they'll catch on quick and do the right thing. A rethug would just run in panicked circles of denial even as the world burns around him.

I don't think a Rethug would run around in panicked circles. I believe the corporate Powers That Be are fully aware of what's coming down, every bit as much as the most aware and pro-environment progressive. Every bit as much as Gore and Kuchinich, in fact.

So why do they put so much money and effort into climate change denial? Why do they seem so intent on committing environmental suicide by polluting our environment and using up our natural resources like there's no tomorrow? It seems at times that they have a national death wish and actually believe there's no tomorrow.

But I don't think that's actually what's happening. They know that ultimately (and probably sooner rather than later) they we are going to have to face fuel rationing and all the other radical changes dealing with a global-scale environmental crisis entails.

I think they are deliberately trying to create a scenario where the American public hits the wall of reality just as hard as possible. It is in their interest to maintain their media-generated comfortable illusions right up to the minute when they collapse. They WANT us to be unprepared for what's coming, absolutely and existentially thrown off balance, because they WANT a full-blown national panic! Panic is something they understand and believe they can control.

Because what they want to do is to control the national reaction to that panic. Fearful people are easily led around by the nose, and of course manipulation through fear is a well-practiced game for the corpocrats. They are hoping a terrified nation will fall one last time for the myth of they have polished to perfection: Namely the Great White Father, the "strong" patriarchal leader who will protect them from catastrophe, or at least give them the illusion or perception of being protected from catastrophe, which to a nation truly in the grips of panic would be almost the same thing.

Catastrophic change is coming, and they know it as well as we do. There is really ONLY choice left: is who ends up directing that change, and the corpocrats are trying to set it up so it will be THEM.

I don't think they will succeed, because while America's national attention span may be shortened as a result of the barrage of propaganda they have been subjected to for decades, it isn't and can't be THAT short. People aren't going to forget who lied them into a false sense of security. Rather than turning in desperation to Big Brother, they are gonna want to string Big Brother up by his gonads.