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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

More Depressing News

Right now, everything sucks.  I don't want to do jack shit, I'm tired, I hurt, I have too much work to do...Happy Holidays!

And then we have this.   Basically, we have passed the point of no return on climate change.  Things - and by things I mean hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, floods and attendant refugee crises - are going to worse, probably much worse.

What's depressing is the Yellow Vest protests in France are about a fuel tax that was instituted to combat carbon emissions.  Macron "did the right thing" to address the spiraling crisis that will change human society forever.  It will cost him the presidency.

That's the reality of yet another problem with democracy in the age of instant information and instant anger.  Macron did the thing that needed doing and he gets riots in the streets.  How many of those rioters will vote for Le Pen, when climate refugees show up in Marseilles?

Everything sucks...

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