The conversation that seems so hard to have:
We are at a crossroads. One path leads to an eco-dystopia in which most of us become slaves to the 1%, vs. another path that leads to a futurist utopia in which we focus on solutions that benefit all of mankind and all the other lifeforms on the planet.
It seems like an easy choice except for that 43% of the american population that has been duped into fighting to make sure we end up in the dystopia because jesus and guns or whatever.
Is this not a simple trolley dilemma? When do we realize that we have to pull the switch? There's a way out of this that most of us don't seem to want to recognize. I've watched politics for over 30 years first person, and I don't see playing the simple democracy game getting us anywhere. I think we need to resort to more despicable measures. Does anyone agree?
If they want to pretend they're the Taliban or the Vietcong, let them try and let them die like idiots in the process of finding out that those organizations were actual professional armed combatants with training that amounts to more than shooting up beer cans at 40 paces.
The Bundy Clan's exploits have proven multiple times, if these morons actually press the right buttons to be determined as anything but a bunch of loons who just need to be talked down from the ledge, they'll end up so many kinds of dead that Saint Peter is going to be handling stack overflow errors looking their rap sheets up at the perly gates.