How Can People Be So Stupid?
Marsha and Rumi Making Me Feel Safe
Representative, Marsha Blackburn, R-TN, just sent out her “Summer Report,” which is full of the typical GOP spittle about growth (got to keep the blob moving along), terrorism (got to keep everyone terrified so we can keep military spending sky high) and drilling in ANWR (got to keep those Hummers humming along, too).
She’s so ignorant it’s sad. Pitiful. Just plain pitiful, and her mom should be ashamed. I know I am.
I don’t expect anything out of the letter I just sent, other than I wanted her to know there are people in her district that aren’t buying her crap.
Here it is:
I just received your “2006 Summer Report,” and I’m dismayed by your opinion regarding gas prices.
Certainly, you have access to all the data everyone else does, and that data does not support your conclusions.
The oil in ANWR will do little to solve the nation’s energy and fuel problem, Marsha. No thinking person could truly believe otherwise, so trying to make the point that it does is nothing less than propaganda to support a failed strategy.
When your society is propped up by a non-renewable resource, the only sensible solution is to look for alternative methods of energy and reduction in use. Nothing else is sustainable.
If you haven’t already, I’d suggest you spend some time researching Peak Oil and the impact of Peak Oil on our society. It’s an eye opener and is well understood by some of your Republican peers.
Communities must be reconstructed to support a dramatic reduction in fuel use, so people can walk and cycle to work, to the store and to schools. Pushing redevelopment in existing areas that supports that model is effective leadership. Pushing the continuation of the oil splurge and at the expense of wild places is not effective leadership.
Some of us get our news and information from places other than CNN, FOX and “The Commercial Appeal.” We do research, compare alternatives and reach conclusions based on careful non-partisan analysis. And we’re fully aware of what’s going on in Washington, which in my opinion, is nothing more than a continuation of business as usual, the status quo and an expansion of the military industrial complex.
Which all requires oil.
And by the way. I hear all this talk about the need for economic growth. Can you please explain how we can sustain economic growth ad infinitum in a world of finite resources? Have you considered the correlation between growth and expansion and the effect on ecosystems? Please explain how this can all be sustained?
Oh, and regarding the terror threat. We’d have a lot fewer problems if you folks would stop sending U.S. forces and U.S. proxy forces around the globe opening up markets for trade. You’re sending citizens to their deaths in support of U.S. expansionism, and you know it.
You should be ashamed, and yes, you have blood on your hands, Ms. Blackburn.
Regards,
Glad you included the proper modifier there, Jack. A good Anglo-Saxon word; nothing to be ashamed of. “Stupid” should always be proceeded by fucking, and often is! There is, after all, only so much blood in the human body and the full tumescent male mebers demands it all, leaving the brain in a vacuous state.
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, I was a bit more optimistic about Homo sapiens. No longer. Reality has sunk deep into my few remaining brain cells, such as they are. When 90% of the people in these united States belive in a God, and 45% of those believe in a literal interpretatin of the Bible, we’re in deep shit. Old Ed always said whenever a town has more churches than bars, the residents living therein are in trouble. Indeed we are.
Belief is the mental crutch of the eternally helpless, the morally bankrupt, the thoughtless bubble-heads, the sycophantic jingoists, the just plain mentally deficient; in other words most of the people in this world except thee and mee and a few others.
Hayduke