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In reply to the discussion: You may have beaten us back with an assist from the corporate media, but ..., [View all]davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)Particularly when we think about climate change and the extinction-level event likely headed our way...
My issue with the corporate media is that they basically nominated Trump. It's not like any of the Republican candidates were great... but, Trump? Mr. "Hey you, you're fired!", "We gonna build us a wall and keep the Mexicans out - and make the Mexicans pay for it!", "Obama? Well, he's a muslim, you know... wasn't even born here..."
It wasn't just the stupid primary and caucus voters. It was the billions of dollars worth of free media time that Trump received, far above and beyond anything Clinton or Sanders could have hoped for. It's not over yet, either. The nightmare is just getting started.
I think Sanders was the right man for the time... the right man to fight back against the economic and social injustices of our time - but he lost. That particular battle is over. I'll tell you one thing though... time? Time is going to send us into oblivion if we let it. Forget the politicians and who leads the circus, what we need is a global, massive effort to force clean energy and a reduced carbon footprint. Either that, or start building giant sea walls, maybe put some damn mirrors in outer space, or colonizing the moon or something - because the big damn boom is coming.
Children born today may not live to see sixty or seventy... because of greed, ignorance, stupidity - and corruption. This is what we have to take on, if we are to leave behind a world for future generations of human beings to live in. Trump will lead us further into the wrong direction. Sanders, I think, would have been more progressive at the helm... but if Clinton is who we have to work with (and, she is, the race for the nomination is over) then I think we need to get busy yesterday.
Time... time is a funny thing - and we are all running out of it.