11-10-2016, 01:28 AM
(11-09-2016, 11:46 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(11-09-2016, 04:09 PM)David Horn Wrote:(11-09-2016, 02:44 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The unravelling pattern has been a period of Republican borrow and spend trickle down leading to economic hardship, followed by the Democrats coming in for a time to right the ship. Trump has other liabilities in addition to the poor economic plans. I don't know that the pattern is apt to break.
Kinser long ago championed Trump as he was the candidate most likely to cause a Marxist revolution. I don't anticipate the revolution, but if he runs the government like he ran his campaign, we might get a regeneracy.
The one element that makes this scary is the time lag. If I kill the entire climate control regime, and put fossil fuels on steroids, then the climate will set the time clock for us. Add the end of Dodd-Frank to the hyper-rapacious nature of modern capitalism, and the resources to respond might be decimated too. We're a lot more fragile than we look.
Fossil fueled electricity is soon to be killed by solar. Musk is big enough that rooftop solar will soon supply most of the electricity in America.
It would help if the Democrats would start supporting carbon tax initiatives, such as the one that failed in Washington state, rather than using the poor as an excuse to take no action.
I agree with you. One thing I heard was that the Sierra Club opposed the WA initiative. Very poor judgement by an organization I have longer supported.