Michael Moore Endorses Bernie Sanders for President

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95. It's really depressing how many issues people address with a mindless, singular catch all phrase.

I'm a scientist who has spent decades studying climate change on a deeper level than almost everyone I meet.

It is an enormous engineering and scientific challenge.

What do a certain class of airheads attribute it's cause to being?

"Corporations."

To what do they attribute racism?

"Corporations."

Al Gore being denied the Presidency?

"Corporations."

A fucking paranoid lunatic named Ralph Nader runs around claiming that Al Gore was a homicidal as George W. Bush had no effect whatsoever, correct?

A movie director who makes his living off complaining that Republicans are in power endorsing the paranoid idiot Ralph Nader had nothing to do with it, correct?

It is amusing how people with such a simplistic and narrow view of the world claim that people who actually know how to think on a profound and detailed level are controlled by "corporate megaphones."

I am aware of what the pathetic airhead Michael Moore regards as what some people call his "his conscious" (sic) by which we may assume that the intent was discuss his conscience. (From my perspective there are few people as unconscious as Michael Moore.

He of course, can be assumed by people whose world view is limited to blaming all the world's problems on presumed all powerful corporations, as being innocent of ulterior motives, even though he did sell movie tickets and other stuff much more easily when a Republican was in power dropping cluster bombs on civilians, than he would have had Al Gore been in the White House.

Personally I don't regard him as having a meaningful conscience, since one only develops a conscience when one is aware of the consequences of one's actions.

If he has a conscience, it is either the conscience of a fool or a snake oil salesman. He makes his living off the fact that right wingers have political power. That's a fact.

If we had a president who resisted the NRA, one wonders whether ticket sales for a movie like "Bowling for Columbine" would have sold as well. Now, people, children, died at Columbine, and somehow the "wit" of putting a title including "Bowling" strikes me as cold and unfeeling given that real human mourning, for children, was involved, but man tickets did sell, didn't they?

Whatever.

I am personally sick and tired of simpletons shouting "corporate! corporate! corporate!" to address every problem on the face of the Earth. These are people who have a poor record of seeking out reality in books, lectures and other sources of deep information.

I note that in the issue most important to me, climate change, the same people who want to blame the problem on the grand boogeyman, the other (as represented by "corporate demons" in the case of some candidates) do in fact, use fossil fuels themselves.

We are all guilty in that issue, in climate change. Most of the electricity to run this website is generated by the combustion of dangerous fossil fuels. Therefore when I look at the cause of climate change, I can understand a portion of the responsibility for it by looking in a mirror. It has something to do, of course, with corporations, but the real cause, as much on the left as on the right, is ignorance and indifference, including but not limited to, my own actions.

Similarly many of us, including those "protesting" the corporate bogeyman to explain why awful people like George W. Bush and Donald Trump are allowed to set foot in the White House, much less live there, are all clearly guilty of being sheep if the only reason they see for these outcomes is corporations. There was no chance in hell that I was going to be influenced by a political ad, and I'm certainly not influenced by simplistic rhetoric that everything in the world can be addressed by replacing all the world's corporations with whatever mindless people assume will replace them in their vague intimations of nirvana.

Real problems can only be addressed by considering the details and relationships of their causes, and not by chanting, "Corporations!" or any other slogan, including but not limited to, the equally airhead slogan, "Make America Great Again." Both are simplistic, and both are not worthy of serious attention.

Have a great weekend.