If you take a frog out of a pond and put him in a beaker half full of water, set that beaker on a Bunsen burner and fire it up on low, that frog will cook and hardly move a muscle as its happening. Remind you of anything?
As climate scientists have been predicting, very strange things are happening. Massive Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina happened... Floods, droughts, wild fires, ocean acidification/rising temps, alarming rates of extinction... and the climate as a whole is warming, exactly as predicted might happen 25 years ago. All happening today, and everyday somewhere and unfolding much quicker than predicted. The pentagon is very worried about this. The United Nations put out a very dire report earlier this week. These are all facts.
Yet a large chunk of America believes it is a hoax. They choose to believe the story big oil/big money tells about it all. In fact the country just over-populated the senate and house with lots of these mouthpieces that repeat the mantra, it is a hoax. They say it and say and say and say it... This propaganda campaign is right out of Joseph Goebbels play book. With similar consciousness of our proverbial frog, these folks prefer to deny reality, do nothing and slowly cook. The drag is we share the planet with these morons.
I wish just someone would ask one of these clowns...what if you are wrong? What do think would be the consequences if the experts are right for the denizens of this planet.
Frogs of a different color of the 63% of eligible voters who decided they didn't want a say in who writes laws, tax code, establishes justice, decides war policy, administers environmental stewardship. By not voting you just voted for the greater of two evils. To all those who didn't VOTE I would like to say thanks so much for two more years where nothing of substance will get done. Modern Republicans will not compromise because they are owned by billionaires. Billionaire's don't compromise, they DICTATE.
The Republican Party is owned lock stock and barrel by large corporations/billionaires, except perhaps the Tea Party is getting the sense something might be rotten in Denmark. I think Stephen King said it well last week when he commented, "things are starting to look like 1984" ... a reference to George Orwell's dystopian novel about fascism.
These frogs resemble to our first frogs in that denying thing. They glom onto their monumentally ignorant claim, "politicians are all the same" as an excuse for not voting... at the same time denying that their vote has any meaning or impact.
Thanks to these frogs we will just continue on our cooking trajectory. Except...
Our President is taking the bull by the horns with China, and it looks like meaningful steps will be taken. Republicans can just Bugger Off!