Vote For The Presidential Candidate That Will Do The Best Job Solving The Climate Crisis

[babsbunny]

http://pol.moveon.org/townhall/climate/townhall2.html?id=10780-6758325-6bh7q5&t=2

[MatrixEscape]

1. I can think of a handful of situations that are ciritical ...

and on a more personal and direct level that need solving ... and they are mounting.

My question is, how does a President accomplish solving the climate crisis when we have a well-entrenched, pervasive, coporatocracy? The Presidential candidates we are offered are a part of that system and large parts of their funding come from that source. Is there not more to this than a titular figure? Climate is important, but the Monopoly board has a big, fat, systematic cash cow sitting on it that is farting up a storm of profit-making, counter-productive climate effects.

Who, I ask you, in their right mind would give up record profits to save the planet when profit is both King and God to them? Now, if Superman were running for President, I could get behind that, (but I would worry about that pesky kryptonite) because he would have the kind of power and invincibility to castrate the corporate bull and clean up the droppings it leaves all over the landscape of post-modern culture.

There is so much to undo concerning the infamous legacy of the past seven years, not to mention the heavy chain of events that have build the foundation for what we are experiencing, mostly in the last century. Like Lovecraft's legendary Cthulhu, it seems to wait, submerged, but influential until the time is right for its rising into full view.

Corporations have far too much power and now they have the rights of person hood, (enacted in the last 20 years). The larger players, regardless of their ability to provide goods and services, have a disproportionate political power and we can now, at least, see the influence they wield and the Fascist flavor of the result. If we cannot, or will not reverse the rapidly growing trend of big business and government building an increasingly obvious union, we will eventually lose any power to stop it -- the technology they have even now will assure that, not to mention what is to come!

To me, the superficial layer of what we are calling politics largely exists today as a grand illusion -- a sideshow-like diversion of great proportions -- to divert attention and resources away from resoundingly important issues that have an import and impact on all of us and, quite possibly, all generations to come.

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president 1801-1809