I'm in a bad place.

[man4allcats]

11. I am of the Darwinian view

that we will ultimately and inevitably be victims of our own folly, that folly being not the failure to adapt to ever encroaching right-wing conservatism but rather the failure to adapt to recognizing that encroachment for what it is and dealing with it. Sure, many of us know, but many more like the woman you mentioned who "always votes Republican" just don't get it and never will. As you note, the plutocracy will of course keep us pacified with cable tv and the intoxicants necessary for the narcolepsy of our addictions. And in that state we will drift off eventually into the loss of our freedom and finally into the loss of any sort of sustainable society following the destruction of our ecosystem. I sometimes wonder if earth's distant future will be that of a world where only plants and cockroaches survive.