Stop. Letting. Them. Frame. The. Fucking. Narrative. Don't let them gaslight you!

[oldcynic]

91. it would be nice? nice? I hope you are being sarcastic.

Look around the world...please. It's turning right everywhere...France to India to Philippines to Australia and on and on. We are all being herded by the four horsemen: overpopulation, climate change, habitat loss, income inequality. Oh, and overpopulation. Did I mention overpopulation?

Right now Florida is burning. It should be so wet down there you couldn't even light a campfire. Think Everglades, alligators, boas. The desert of Northern California is drowning and people are still using heaters because it's so cold. Which political party is going to help the country deal with that and how will they do it?

The world has finally run out of habitat for humans. We're already being habituated to eating insects, lab meat made of sewage and other unsavory stuff. Don't even think about drinking water: best example are the Middle East wars. Sure, start filtering sea water. Does the party have a platform that deals with long term problems like desalinization of the oceans?

Even the most illiterate hermit ensconced in next to nowhere knows about income inequality. S/he is probably pissed at the bishop eating out of silver bowls. More millions will be losing their jobs to robotics. What is the plan to regulate wealth?

And finally, the most ignored and most dangerous threat is overpopulation and everybody has just given up. It could be treated like a party campaign if a party would take it up.

People can be swayed, influenced, manipulated, convinced, educated and all the rest if we focus on the four horsemen who threaten our species with self-extinction. But doing that ain't gonna be nice. We are approaching the horizon of a very black hole.