The GOP is one of the most dire threats this country has ever faced

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57. I wish I could say it was just the GOP.

We can pretty safely say all the GOP cares about is making money. Who pays the most? Whose ring can they kiss to make a dollar? Big biz. They don't care who gets hurt, who lives in torment from their actions or what kind of contributions to the world they leave behind. I think they share that attitude with many who are not conservatives or even who pay that much attention to politics at all. The need to lessen regulations, to open new areas to exploitation, to lower taxes on investment earnings, to lower wages & health care costs, to dissolve social safety nets. All in the never ending quest for one more nickel than the other guy. All as you point out leading us even deeper and deeper into the reality that we will never even consider addressing climate change as a moral & ethical concept. Only as a byproduct of our inalienable right to speculate & pillage the earth so a handful can live in luxury today.
I used to feel like we were more of an opposition party to these principles. That money wasn't more important than nature, that we had an obligation to actually try to make things better, but that may have just been in my head. More & more it seems like some dimly lit far off memory that as each day passes becomes more like the imaginings of a desperate mind than a reality.
This Govt/Wall St friendly environment we have created is literally killing us. Us, our families and their futures. They poison our land, seas & air. They pump our bodies full of horrible crap and obfuscate the science when it appears its causing us health problems and spend billions fighting anything that would help us cover our medical costs from their avarice.