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They could put the GOP out of business. Get rid of the filibuster, make DC and Puerto Rico states, abolish the electoral college, pass a voting rights act, create universal health care, and spend a bunch of $ on stuff that helps people, and raises their standard of living. Republicans would be relegated to about 1/4 of the seats in congress, and bit more in the Senate, and they would never win the White House again. That would be the end. So…they COULD do that, and they don’t want to.
They don’t want to do any of it. For all the talk of investment in greenery, the Democrats placed Joe Manchin as the chair of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. It’s self-evident that if Democrats were honestly committed to moving away from fossil fuels, Joe Manchin wouldn’t even be on that committee at all, let alone the Chair of it. I mean… FFS… this isn’t an oversight that nobody considered the consequences of.
It’s the same right across the Senate and House. Look whom the Dems have placed where on the various committees.
But it doesn’t make much difference at this point. I really don’t think there is anything we can do about it. Literally. It’s too late.
The media conglomerates control what Americans know, and to a large extent, what they believe about what’s going on. You can’t unravel the propaganda model because the 1% control congress. You can’t cut the $ from the 1% to congress because you will never convince people to vote for people who will do that because the 1% controls all the media messaging. And even if we got control of congress, the 1% would use their influence over the legal system to jack up attempts to reform the system. They have tentacles everywhere, and you can’t remove them one-by-one.
Try removing this tree without damaging the structure:
So you’re looking at a complete revolution…which you can’t get people on board for because of the propaganda model…and even if you succeeded at that, the supply network would come to a halt, and food would stop being delivered to grocery stores, and in 3 days time, the violence would start. And within a few short weeks/months, we would have several million people displaced and dead, and that would be that.
Some indigenous communities in a few places around the world might be equipped to deal with that, but industrialized societies would go down the crapper in minutes.
And we are past the point of no return on a few tipping points. We are to the place where we need to actively reduce the carbon/methane in the atmosphere, and we aren’t going to do that with a broken down supply chain.
To sum up: We can’t reverse climate catastrophe without revolution. Revolution will destroy the supply chain. We can’t reverse climate catastrophe without a supply chain.
So we’re screwed. IMO.
