It's so good, I will repeat the argument here:
You are like little children at the beach.
As usual DU is full of comments that are the equivalent of little children at the beach building houses of sand and then using teaspoons to remove puddles of seawater from them, ignoring the tsunami just off shore that will soon sweep everything away. Bernie Sanders is the only candidate that will seriously address the coming climate catastrophe. The Clinton campaign, the political class, and the mainstream media keep telling us that Sanders is tilting at windmills. Bernie is not the one tilting at windmills!
The very existence of life on earth as we know it is at stake. Your children will likely have a future, but a secure future for all generations after theirs is problematic. Will you wake up from your slumber and your self-absorption and show that you care for the life on this planet? That you care for the very existence of those who all hopefully follow you?
Have you taken the time, perhaps only a few hours, to stop the childish banter and learn about how bad the climate situation really is, or will you continue to joke and play, snicker and feud while the climate catastrophe is only decades away from changing everything? --from banned OP (my emphasis)
Also, "Feel the Bern," as the capper, has beautiful irony.
I would only argue with "decades away." Climate catastrophe is not decades away. It is here. Catastrophic droughts in Africa and the ME. Catastrophic floods, hurricanes, here and elsewhere. Islands already going under (including England's coast being eaten away). Catastrophic loss of ocean reefs (fish food source going down--very, very bad!). Catastrophic loss of bees (food pollinators). Catastrophic loss and/or disruption of all species. Catastrophic human dislocations. And on and on. It is HERE, NOW.
Our corporate-run way of life is actually killing the planet we all depend upon for life itself, and it is doing so NOW. And the Corporate Rulers who are running things here have
paralyzed our democracy--with mind-boggling propaganda, rigged elections, anti-democratic, planet-killing "trade agreements" and many other tactics--to prevent U.S. leadership from addressing this awesome crisis in any meaningful way.
My metaphor is the Titanic. The rich are arranging their cushy berths on the Titanic while the rest of us are chained and gated below, away from the lifeboats.
But "little children on a beach" building a sand castle with a tsunami rising behind them is good, too. Maybe add some bully kids who think they are 'winning' the sandcastle contest and won't let the other children leave--and it would complete the current picture.
Sorry you won't be continuing at DU. We are in desperate need of "Cassandra"'s who speak the truth here amidst the childish banter that DU has been flooded with. You do know we've been flooded with paid bots whose job is to trivialize serious discussion, spread ugly pre-written 'memes' about racism and sexism, and otherwise make this once very progressive site into a joke?
See
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280181570
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