I believe that I will eventually die as a result of right-wing policies

[Bjorn Against]

I am still young and healthy today, but I am becoming more and more convinced that I will not die of old age and neither will many of my peers. Sound crazy? Just look at the facts, and it is not so crazy.

We have global warming spinning out of control. Much of the world is currently going through a major heat wave, and experiencing drought. Storms are getting more powerful, the ice caps are melting and this is just the beginning.

This is a clear result of the right wing policies that created a major dependance on fossil fuels. This is the result of right-wing policies that allowed the clear cutting of forests, and allowed corporations to operate without any serious environmental regulation. This is a result of right-wing policies that discourage mass transit, and encourage the use of SUVs.

I won't even get into the war mongering, aside from saying when you kill people's families they get angry so war creates terrorists it doesn't destroy terrorists.

So yes I believe I will eventually die as a result of right-wing policies, and I think it is time we start voicing that concern.

Let's face it their policies that destroy the environment and bring about violence are going to kill a lot of people. That is not a crazy thought, that is realty and I don't think hardly anyone who has any understanding of global warming could honestly deny that there is a strong possibility they could die of right-wing policies.

Our lives are on the line here, and it is about time we acknowledged it. When I say we are fighting for our future I mean it.

[MadMaddie]

1. It's interesting that you say that

When the 2004 elections were here Puff Daddy or PDiddy had an election slogan "Vote or Die"!! People screamed how absurd it was.....it doesn't seem that absurd now.....somewhat prophetic...

We will survive...but the country will take years even decades to recover...

[global1]

2. I Don't Know How Old You Are - But I Think You Are Spot On In Your....

thinking. Let me ask you this - do you think others your age think the same? Do you think others your age could be influenced to think like you if it was put to them like you just stated? If so - I think you are on to something. We need to get young people like you to talk to other young people like you - to get them out to vote. Nov. 06 is critical. If we could muster up enough votes to overwhelmingly vote against the Repugs they won't be able to steal this election.

[Bjorn Against]

6. I am 28

I don't really think most people my age are thinking about death, but many are concerned about the direction this country is headed. I don't think people want to think about all the things that could kill them or make their lives miserable in the future, but I do think we need to think about those things.

[Deja Q]

3. We are all to blame, this is by no means a partisan issue whatsoever!!

We are all to blame. For not taking notice. And not changing more rapidly than we could have.

I'm going to cut TV off cold turkey as the latest means to not use energy and do what I should be doing - living life as a human and not being irradiated by a big glowing silver box. And go out and be more social as best I can. To try to build REAL communities and stop big chain stores from hijacking the word "community" with empty promises of education and help nonsense while putting cheap prices on cheaper garbage. There ARE other ways to live.

But will everyone want to do it? If not, then we're ALL beyond recrimination. Even the right-wingers.

Indeed, if a bunch of immigrants were too chicken to carry out their own "boycott America" day back in May by staying home, what chance to we, born in this country, have? That's right. 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%. Maybe the immigrants took to our lifestyle too quickly and didn't want to lose it. :shrug:

Not to sound like a pessimist, but most Americans aren't fools. They don't want to give up their tools of isolation. Indeed, many a librarian has a "Kill your television" bumper sticker on their car. Just another reason why to agree with them.

I think it's for the best. It's gonna hurt. But if everyone gave up their isolationist toys and make and go out with friends, we'd make for a better community - AND country. AND not use so much electricity to get fat watching mindrot 8 hours a day. My mindrot may be comparatively intellectual, but it's still mindrot - and watching people live vicariously rather than actual living.

But terrorists had existed long before 9/11/01. Long before 1979. And China, a supposed enemy, is one that the US has happily been dealing with. Even "All in the Family" has the liberal character chiming up the Nixon-China talks as a good thing. So, yeah, I am missing out on something too.

[Bjorn Against]

4. I agree we all share blame, yet it was right wing policies that pushed...

our way of life forward. It has actively encouraged, in fact even forced a lifestyle of mass consumption. Is it possible to get by without a car? For some people the answer is yes, but not for very many. It was right-wing policies that designed our system of large vehicles and crappy mass transit.

I will be the first to admit that I bear some responsibility as do we all, but it is our governments responsibility to craft policies that protect our environment. They have not done that, in fact they have done the exact opposite.

[Sinti]

7. Kill your television!! n/t

[silverojo]

11. A lot of people would say the same about computers

Anything can be educational, if we approach it in the right way. Watching informative shows on TV is right; watching reality TV isn't going to cut it. Similarly, checking out online blogs and news sources is right; downloading mindless porn isn't helping matters.

A device is only as good as people make it. ;)

[Greyhound]

5. You don't know how badly I wish I could argue with you on this.

Unfortunately you are probably right. Although it may not be you specifically, there have been many before you and many, many more will follow.

I would also point out that it will be young people like you that will stop it, if anyone does. We old farts are to comfortable and cowardly, or too broke and sick, to make the stand.

[ChristianLibrul]

8. They want us to die as soon as possible

We aren't entitled to live in their country.

[undergroundpanther]

9. Authoritarians

who cannot handle change and must compulsively dominate and greedy profit mongers sociopaths who must win any way they can get away with it,are the problem,and they are consummate liars and charismatic con men who seek positions of power for themselves.We will die because we let them run things,lead us and be who decides things in the future and we let these thugs tell us how to live,who we are,and we have bought into their cons..These authoritarian thugs are right wingers because right wing ideology is based in domination ,exploitation,controlling others freedoms(limiting change) and not sharing and the right wing hates what it defines as weakness poverty and it hates empathy.

[silverojo]

10. You're not alone

People are dying because they don't have health care, can't afford their meds, can't get decent housing, can't get enough food.

These people won't have TIME to be affected by global warming. They're being killed right now.

A sobering thought....

[gulliver]

12. Yup. The idiots are burning up our altitude, our fuel, ...

... our runway, and our ammo.