Posted on 09/28/2022 5:43:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It's hard to explain just how much some people in rural California dislike and distrust the rest of us, especially Gov. Gavin Newsom.
It's not something hidden under the surface, and it's not just the radical fringe. Drive up past Sacramento, and there's a real sense among many that urban California has betrayed them, ravaged their resources and simply doesn't respect or value their way of life.
There's no denying that the extremist turn of MAGA Republicanism is flourishing throughout the state's pastoral parts. As climate change worsens, water gets more scarce and the land becomes hotter, drier and harder to live upon, this discontent could very well metastasize into violence. That's especially true if California uses financial leverage to discourage rebuilding fire-destroyed towns and encourages rural denizens to move to more defensible places.
Experts who track domestic unrest are raising these concerns. It's not just the two of us. Ignoring that growing fury is just as dangerous and foolish as ignoring the rising temperatures themselves. In both cases, there's a tipping point where it becomes impossible to turn the heat back down.
Even those without extremist goals are fed up enough to defy authorities and regulators.
Many blame their woes on liberal policies — such as bans on extensive logging or maintaining stream flows for endangered fish.
But the answer to a brutally warming planet can't be merciless anarchy — a "Mad Max" world of takers and losers.
As climate change forces hard choices, we must decide how to treat neighbors who don't particularly like us — and whose views we may not particularly like — but who until now have been easy to ignore because they are largely powerless to stop our majority rule.
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Is there anything climate change can’t do?
The greens have become completely unhinged.
Stopping all oil and gas usage to “save the planet” is lunacy.
Climate is doing what it does. Anyone see that the glaciers are missing from Yosemite, chicago and nyc. And all without SUVs. Weird huh? I really don’t like these liars.
Only higher taxes and bigger government can stop this.
it’s also fueling stupidity..
We are living 1984.
“Is there anything climate change can’t do?”
...it certainly is talented. Like Sammy Davis Jr it can do it all.
Man made climate change supporters cannot openly debate their positions.
You left off the Goebbels picture and [BARF ALERT] .....
“we must decide how to treat neighbors who don’t particularly like us — and whose views we may not particularly like — but who until now have been easy to ignore because they are largely powerless to stop our majority rule.”
Apparently that’s already been decided.
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Extremism is rioting in the streets for a year because the white-on-black murders is really high -- 1/3rd the number of black-on-white murders.
Extremism is aborting over 60 million babies in my lifetime and believing the babies are better off from it.
Extremism is all of the excuses to justify vote cheating.
Extremism is teaching our kids to twerk, masturbate, and go gay in elementary school.
Extremism is teaching people to violate Jesus' two commands: loving God and loving people. If us freedom loving Americans can win this part of the argument the rest will go away.
The author is too ideologically blind to see the irony here. It is the insane, unscientific pseudo-science and attendant authoritarianism that he supports and defends, that will lead to merciless anarchy.
Disgusting LA Times
It’s been said in jest before, BUT this time, I REALLY DID think this headline was for a Babylon Bee spoof.
Well, they’re right about one thing. This constant stream of gaslighting about “climate change” is warming up my temper. My tolerance for lies is wearing very, very thin.
How is putting America first an extreme idea? Most would say making America weak is an extreme idea.
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