Reply #30: Yeah, it's a war for oil, but what about the others who want to steal it?

[sofa king]

China and India are all going to be facing dramatically increased oil demands, and the U.S. and Britain have just stolen the some of the largest and cheapest to extract of the world's reserves.

Soon, if it hasn't happened already, demand is going to start outstripping production, and I have a hunch the Republican party doesn't want to share with godless or wrong-godded people. That's going to be plenty of justification for a world war, and by stealing it first we've automatically made ourselves the bad guys. But the bad guys are the ones most likely to survive.

One way or the other, very few of the six billion of us alive today are going to be alive at the end of this century. But if two out of three of them die right now or very soon, the oil economy might live another hundred years, and the people who own and control the oil economy now will still control the oil economy then. Recently, those same people have gained total control the most powerful and deadly war machine the world has ever seen.

For years now I have been amazed at the string of similarities between the modern GOP and Hitler's Nazi Party. There has and always will be one glaring difference: the Nazis plotted and carried out the murder of nine million people.

I used to think that the difference between the GOP and the Nazis was that one was planning to murder millions of people and one wasn't. Now I'm starting to think the difference is that one was planning a series of murders in the millions, and the other is planning a series of murders in the billions.

Just like the Germans looted and exploited their perceived social inferiors before murdering them, the GOP is looting and exploiting us. What's the point of drilling in ANWR if it only has enough oil to satisfy current consumption for six months? If two hundred million Americans are dead, suddenly that supply is a lot more valuable and worthy of exploitation. If the Social Security savings of two hundred million soon-to-be-dead Americans were privatized, that money could be put to use before they die, rather than just sitting in a fund which is going to become irrelevant when there's nobody to collect. What's the point of saving the environment now if soon environmental pressure as a whole is going to be reduced by two thirds? What supports the unholy union between brilliant greedy fascists and ignorant drooling Bible thumpers?

Maybe the preachers are being told that the end of the world is nigh.