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In reply to the discussion: 'Monsanto Protection Act': 5 Terrifying Things To Know About The HR 933 Provision [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Eg, During the Bush years Democrats hated Offshore Drilling. Sarah Palin was mocked for her 'drill baby, drill' campaign slogan. She was ignorant. We were the smart ones.
I've learned since then that Sarah Palin was the smart one after all and that those who warned against Offshore Drilling for 30 years, were wrong. Offshore drilling is perfectly safe. And please do not remind me of the explosion shortly after we learned how wrong we were, that killed 11 men and destroyed the Gulf.
SS according to Democrats, was not in trouble. Anyone who even suggested such a thing, was a Republican.
Now I've learned that SS needs to be fixed, just like Republicans were saying all along. We were wrong, they were right.
Large Corporations like Monsanto were evil, according to Democrats. They needed to be regulated and they needed to label their products so that we knew what was in them. They were not to be trusted.
We were wrong again. Now I've learned that Monsanto is a benign, life-saving Corporation necessary to feed the world. I've learned that farmers in other countries and here, need Monsanto as they do not know how to feed themselves. Republicans told me this for years, I guess I owe them an apology!
I have learned so much over the past few years. Eg, we once hoped that war criminals would eventually be held accountable. Not any more, I've learned that this would be bad for this country and we were once again wrong to even suggest it. All those 'impeach Bush/Cheney demands, well I guess it was just politics.
I've also learned that Wall Street criminals were not actually criminals after all. When Bush bailed them out, we were wrong to protest him doing so, he was right, we were wrong. I've learned that no crimes were committed, immoral yes, but criminal no.
Every day I am learning new things. But most of all, I'm learning that Bush was not a bad guy after all, that we Democrats must have just misunderstood him and I keep remembering all the nasty things I said about Republicans and wonder how could we have been so wrong?
So, wrt to your question about the pipeline, you need to start revising your opinion on this too. Democrats, I am learning, are not very smart, Republicans apparently were right all along. That is why we now have a few of them and some Corporate CEOs appointed to our government.
You will soon be getting the information that will help you to be happy about the pipeline too. You can count on it. Unless by some remote chance, we Democrats were right about it after all. It would be nice to have been right about something, wouldn't it?
For the comprehension impaired!