Mike Pence brags about destroying the environment in Ohio,

[CharleyDog]

5. If you read the RW "news" or media sites, they used the word

environmentalist as a swear word and used with "dirty hippies." It's a curse word, a sneer, and implies a person or group to be despised. Dirty hippies are the enemy and if possible they would like to fire them from jobs, refuse services to them and send them to prison if possible.

My neighbor is one of these evangelicals. She moved into our neighborhood that is in a forest and a natural wildlife "protected" (sort of) area. She cut down ALL of the trees on her property because she didn't like the pine needles getting in the house gutters. Dug up the whole yard and put in rocks and gravel so there's no yard work. She has the pest control guys every month to spray for spiders. She wants a sterile environment.

That said, this morning in our yard we had quail, thrushes, and hundreds of robins turning over leaves, hummers in the flowers, and osprey overhead, and a bald eagle too. We pretty much co-exist with our spiders, I respect their contribution to the family.