03-15-2017, 10:46 AM
(03-14-2017, 08:24 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I don't think there's much hope for progressives to turn into reactionaries like kinser did, SomeGuy. If there's any hope, it's that reactionaries like you will become progressives. At least, if you grow a brain.
Yes, I think progressives understand that white vs. colored is not a zero sum game, because what's good for some people doesn't have to hurt others, in an economy in which all have good opportunities. Which is the kind of economy that progressives create and conservatives destroy so that a few rich people can benefit instead. Yes, I think that a shift to sustainability will be better than our food and water sources being destroyed, our cities flooded and our wildlife killed, and that economy depends on ecology. We understand that a shift to new industries creates jobs, while hanging on to old dirty ones for the convenience of a few CEOs does not. Yes, progressives understand that maintaining an expensive MIC, just so America can be number one, siphons off the real prosperity could be created by reining in this waste. Yes, progressives understand that world order is maintained by multi-lateral agreements and not by hegemonic empires.
Too bad you don't seem to understand these things, and call people "stupid" or "misguided" who do.
But weren't most of those "old, dirty" industries already destroyed in the US during the deindustrialization mania of the 1970s and 1980s? The shift to high-tech information created some jobs, yes, but those industries are far less labor intensive and therefore not as many are needed, save for the burgeoning service industry which concentrates mainly on low-wage unstable employment. And much wildlife area along with food producing area was destroyed to make way for shopping malls and office buildings. With the advent of online shopping fewer of these will be needed as well. In fact there already exists a huge vacuum in shopping districts.