Damn Hippie Liberal Trees: Environmentalists Are Pinko Terrorist Idiots

[CShine]

As if 600-year-old redwoods give a damn for your politics. As if struggling salmon care a whit for the Catholic Church's sneering homophobic stance on gay marriage. Like Alaskan elk think your viewpoints on war are far too lopsided to hold sway in the national dialogue.

There are typical GOP evils and there are warmongering BushCo flying monkeys and there is Dick Cheney's pallid sneer as he slaughters a small mountain of birds for blood sport, and then there is perhaps the most vile and destructive notion the GOP has succeeded in foisting upon the numbed nation to date: that caring about Mother Nature makes you, yet again, a "goddamn hippie liberal."

This is what has happened: The GOP has succeeded, woefully, viciously, in demonizing nature. Right now, to love our unlogged forests or to wish air quality to be protected or to hope our leaders don't allow monster crony oil companies to jam their snarling proboscises into our country's nature preserves for a handful of crude is now to be thought of as a dreadlocked Greenpeace-Earth First!-tofu lover.

It's true. You cannot think solar power is cool without being labeled a hippie. You cannot want the U.S. Navy to knock it off with the goddamn high-powered sonar that damages whales without being cast as some sort of New Age freak. You cannot drive a Prius without being deemed some sort of nutball geek who probably feeds your kids only hemp seeds and homemade sproutburgers with a side of fresh mulch.

http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

[shirlden]

1. Ok Ok ........you caught me...put on the cuffs

I'm a pinko, commie, terrorist, idiot, tree-hugging librul and damned PROUD of it.

:hi:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Well, if you demandian

I am a 53 year old Hippie, who grew up in the Height, who still values the same thing 30 years later. My basic egalatarian ideas have held constant for the last 30 years.