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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader: Hillary Clinton is a 'menace to the United States' [View all]Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)As far as I'm concerned, issues like climate change, overpopulation and environmental degradation are rushing at us at blinding speed. (Sorta literally--most of us are blind to the rate and devastating potential of the onrush.)
The Democrats pay at least lip service in acknowledgement of the impending Perfect Storm, and will likely do some minor things to ameliorate the impact, while the Republicans and their corporate sponsors are willfully blind to the coming catastrophe.
It's a choice between a rapid drop into perdition under Republican control and a somewhat slower slide to the same destination under the conventional Democratic policies I anticipate.
Given only those choices, I choose the latter, if only in hopes of buying us time to wake up. Or, on a more cynical and self-centered level, I'm old and would as soon live out the remainder of my years without fully experiencing the misery I know to be coming.